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I often have to give presentations that include extensive use of complex network diagrams to expensive-suit-wearing types. I've always used Visio for network diagrams, but have always felt that they look clunky. What other software is out there which:

  1. Can export as HTML with links to other pages.
  2. Has some kind of pop-up or menu for object config data (IP-address, OS, License, etc)
  3. Looks really sexy.
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Never thought I would see the words "complex networks diagrams" and "expensive-suit-wearing types" on the same sentence. Sorry, couldn't help it. – jliendo Mar 30 '11 at 18:05
possible duplicate of Network Diagramming Software, FREE or Open-Source. – jscott Mar 30 '11 at 22:03
For the record, I voted to close this a dupe, not as off-topic. I really can't see why others voted for off-topic. – John Gardeniers Mar 30 '11 at 22:20
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closed as off topic by SvenW, Zoredache, Iain♦, jscott, John Gardeniers Mar 30 '11 at 22:19

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OmniGraffle for Mac is great for just kind of thing, have you considered using VisioCafe's excellent make/model-specific stencils with Visio? - actually having representative graphics of the actual servers/switches etc. adds so much.

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OSAlt has a decent list of open source alternatives to Visio

http://www.osalt.com/visio

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I've used Dia and ArgoUML for UML models. However, I've found that Visio tends to be the shortest path from scratch to polished diagram. Especially when using templates and shapes from VisioCafe.

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I've been teaching myself graphviz for this purpose(amongst others) the investment is going to be a bit higher to start with

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Thanks for the tips guys. I think I'll stick with Visio for now, using some of the great templates at Visio Cafe. – Frank Brenner Apr 1 '11 at 7:36
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yED is a free (but not open source) Java application. It can export diagrams in formats such as >

html, jpg, pdf, png, svg, swf

It also includes a good library of diagram elements.

More info including a 90 second video of it in action here > yED Graph Editor

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Diagramly, rather than export to HTML, it just sits in any HTML page.

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