Visio

Non-Profit Techie

Does anyone have any suggestions for creating documention for you network using MS Visio? So far i like the program and it has alot of neat tools. However, im just wondering if anyone knows the best way a newbie should go about getting all the data i need to properly document and get the data into the shapes. So far i figured i would make an excel sheet with all the column data i would to have on each device and then import it into each shape.

Any advice that might save me a lot of time due to items i wont think of the first time around would be greatly appreiciated.

Does anyone have an excel sheet example i could take a look at?

Does anyone know where i can get Xserve, APC stecils/icons? how about fiber panels?

Thanks

Aaron

TheShadow

Don't have a specific answer but you may wish to check this link for stencils that you do not have.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/prod_visio_icon_list.html

BubbaJ

NetZoom has stencils for just about everything.

TheShadow

For documenting stencils here is another freebe that I forgot about

http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac50/ac47/2.html#visio

edit: I forgot that microsoft maintains a list of free and pay for viso stencil sites here

http://www.mvps.org/visio/3rdparty.htm

Non-Profit Techie

thanks guys. Yeah, i was able to find most of the stencils i need. Its just the damn APC equipment that i cant find. I have learned alot about the visio program over the weekend. its pretty cool. I am importing all my data in from excel and so far so good. Thanks for all the great links!

blargoe

That netzoom site has some but they are expensive...