Build a Toolkit

[knightinkhaki]

Hello,

I actually have to build a network analysis toolkit for an organisation.Any ideas on how to go about building it? The toolkit should perform basic and advanced functionalities that a network administrator would need in an organisatoin.Like all the Show commands on the routers.I would be glad If I get any advice.

Thanks

[dilettante]

Seems like a very strange question to come to a programmer's forum site to ask. If by "build" you mean select and accumulate tools I think you want a box jockey site where TechNet types hang out.

If you want to write the software for such a "toolkit" you're also probably in the wrong place. Most of what you'll need are low-level operations that VB, VB.Net, and C# (the main languages covered here) are not optimal for. You might use them to produce GUIs or for crunching data or something, but you'll probably want to do the "hard part" using a lower level language like C.

If you just want to "screen scrape" Telnet sessions with routers and such your quest is probably one of accumulating router command profiles so that your program can translate what various makes and models use into some lingua franca to drive a GUI or something.


There are tons of products out there for doing these things. I'm not sure rolling your own makes sense.

[knightinkhaki]

Thanks for the reply.Couldnt get a better reply to my post,I actually plan on using .net to build it.Iam still a newbie to .net so I would also be glad If you have any good tutorial videos to further improve my knowledge.Iam also looking for ideas to spruce up the GUI,any suggestions?