I am looking for a tool to visualize our system landscape, including physical servers, logical servers (VMs), application servers, databases, applications, scripts, etc.
The main purpose I am pursuing is not just to get a big shiny graphic with lots of images and arrows in it, but to actually get a system representation that can furthermore be explored for reference purposes.
Most important would be that it is possible to
a) mark dependencies of systesm, i.e. application foo depends on database bar working, etc.
b) that the graph of these dependencies would actually be explorable.
What I mean with point b) is that I'd like to be able to pick one system, e.g. a server, and the tool would somehow show or highlight to me all other systems that in any way depend on the system I chose.
In other words, if I would shut down server qux which services would stop working?
Furthermore it should be possible to either zoom in or have some other way of drilling down through different levels of abstraction. The full graph of all servers/VMs/applications obviously is gonna get huge, so the ability to hide some info you don't immediately need would come in handy.
