Comment on [AIT] Anyone using AI to map your network / system
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 1 week ago
Nope, and I wouldn’t recommend it either. They are generally not great with mapping IMO, no matter the model.
And really this is better managed with a quick diagram and a spreadsheet. If you want some software, look at netbox for this, you can add in validation rules and all kinds of automations as well.
But really, use a spreadsheet.
Cyber@feddit.uk 1 week ago
I have Visio drawings already, and KeePass files and backup configs and…
So, it’s mostly therrle, but there’s always something that’s not captured, like maybe MAC address I’m trying to resolve in a switch…
I was thinking AI could draw, redraw and draw again…
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 1 week ago
You can, I’m just saying be prepared for disappointment. The amount of effort you need to put in, imo, you could have had a spreadsheet and been done. And then used that with a script to autogenerate some mermaidml to get a purdy drawing out of it (which I highly recommend leveraging Beautiful-Mermaid.
And then you can feed that to an llm and make your queries about ports or other uses, to me thats a much better use/approach. To each their own though.
Cyber@feddit.uk 1 week ago
Not really seen much of mermaid diagrams before, thanks.
Btw, Looking at the issue comments, seems beautiful mermaid is unmaintained and now forked to zombie mermaid: github.com/dfadler/zombie-mermaid
May be personal preference, but d2 blows mermaid out of the water. And it is a single executable, no npm needed.