Network Discovery tool and documentation

Good Morning,
I am currently looking for a network discovery tool that will help me document the current layout. Any tips or what not? Yes you can do it the old way with Vizio or gimp, but I am sure there are better and smarter resources out there. Thank you for your time.

Jschreck

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MrAgent

A tool I've used in the past to map an AD infrastructure was the AD Topology Diagrammer
Download Microsoft Active Directory Topology Diagrammer from Official Microsoft Download Center

networker050184

Netbrain is a product out there for automatic mapping and export to Visio.

d4nz1g

Have you guys heard of SpiceWorks?

Haven't had time to test it on a production environment, but it does look great at all.

BlackBeret

Network Miner or p0f if you're looking for passive.

down77

networker050184 wrote: »

Netbrain is a product out there for automatic mapping and export to Visio.

Good product but can be very pricey.

josh.armentrout1

d4nz1g wrote: »

Have you guys heard of SpiceWorks?

Haven't had time to test it on a production environment, but it does look great at all.

It works well, if configured properly. That can't be stressed enough. When I used it, it was heavily DNS dependant and may still be that way. If your DNS is a jacked up as our environment, you may want to look for something else or get the network admins to finally look at cleaning up DNS.

jschreck

p0f sounds really nice.. i am also looking at open-audit

inscom.brigade

networker050184 wrote: »

Netbrain is a product out there for automatic mapping and export to Visio.

real sweet but we only had 2 license, for it. The great part was they had class to use it. But when your busy hard to find time to attend class.

kohr-ah

If you are decent at linux and python I found this on reddit a while back and it actually works pretty darn well and is free.
https://www.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/3cd4av/script_to_automatically_diagram_your_network/

It creates a diagram for you.