Visual Network Mapping software?

[4saken]

Ok, so look at this picture.

Basically we have been generating netstat -an traffic on every linux host/guest/etc we have inside of our network, collecting it at a central location, then through some ridiculous scripting/generating views and sorting them based on application/network/etc. This will eventually allow us to get to a bigger project of getting rid of unneeded vm guests, securing certain servers, making sure prod/qa/dev environments are separated. We can look at these graphs now and ask, "why is this dev box talking to this production box" etc. Or i can say, why is this box using Java to talking to postgresql on this server that has supposedly been decommissioned from production for 6 months. It works, but it is very manual intensive and ugly.

We are looking for a very high level look at traffic from any server we want. Has anyone undertaken a similar project and have any advice on software suites(preferably OSS), or other to do help assist in this?

Please let me know if this makes sense.

 

[jon42689]

I am also highly interested in such a tool.

 

[nitrobass24]

Red Seal? http://www.redsealnetworks.com/products/platform/

 

[MrGuvernment]

Fully Automated Nagios has this integrated into it. http://www.fullyautomatednagios.org/ set that up

 

[4saken]

Nagvis isnt quite as high level as I need it. We have plenty of tools that can do that reporting.

Basically taking a tcpdump or persistent(kinda of) netstat -an and parsing all of the data to find out all connections/endpoints/etc at any given time and being able to see waste etc. Thanks though.

I have been messing with a mashup of argus/afterglow/neato and some bash scripting to format things right to get a fancy map. Trying to figure out how to put that data into a csv readable by a viz program like Gephi or other to make a nice fancy map i can show to execs.