Internode Nodemap - Network Status Visualization

RELEASE NOTES: 1.1 Release

Changes from the previous version:

A regex-parsing bug in parser.pm has been fixed (thanks Craig Small for the patch)
Support for user-specified line thickness and "shaded" links has been added (thanks to William Shipway for the ideas)
SNMP communities can now be specified in nodemap.cf.
update_stats and update_pktloss have been completely replaced with a new scheduler
Complete rewrite of the "Expect" routine which scripts ssh/rsh sessions to make it more robust and fix a bug which made it occasionally chew up all the VTYs on a router (!)
New snmp_version and snmp_community keywords in enpoint block definitions
Various minor bugfixes and documentation changes.
Platforms include FreeBSD 4.x, FreeBSD 5.x, MacOS 10.3.5 and Solaris 10.
Tested with gd-2.0.28 (compiled against zlib-1.2.1, jpeg-6b, libpng-1.2.5), along with CPAN's GD-2.16 and Expect-1.15 modules.

As a result of those changes, the old update_stats and update_pktloss programs are deprecated, and will eventually disappear from the distribution and the documentation. Their functionality has been replaced by the new scheduler program. As an additional side effect, etc/pktloss.cfg is no longer used by update_pktloss, and the code which generates it can be expected to eventually disappear from the distribution too.

The new software can be downloaded here: code, documentation, installation instructions

Prerequisites come from:

gd-2.0.28: www.boutell.com/gd

zlib-1.2.1: www.gzip.org/zlib

jpeg-6b: www.ijg.org

libpng-1.2.5: www.libpng.org/pub/png

GD-2.16: search.cpan.org/~lds/GD-2.16

Expect-1.15: search.cpan.org/~rgiersig/Expect-1.15

IO::Tty-1.02: search.cpan.org/~rgiersig/IO-Tty-1.02 (required for Expect-1.15)

Note that installation has been substantially simplified by the fact that the authors of GD now once again support the GIF file format which nodemap has been using (they removed GIF support a while ago due to patent concerns, but the patents have now expired).