How to Document Computer Networks
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Sabah Al-Fedaghi, Bader Behbehani
2020
Abstract
Documenting networks is an essential tool for troubleshooting network
problems. The documentation details a network's structure and context, serves
as a reference and makes network management more effective. Complex network
diagrams are hard to document and maintain and are not guaranteed to reflect
reality. They contain many superficial icons (e.g., wall, screen and tower).
Defining a single coherent network architecture and topology, similar to
engineering schematics, has received great interest. We propose a fundamental
approach for methodically specifying a network architecture using a diagramming
method to conceptualize the network s structure. The method is called a
thinging (abstract) machine, through which the network world is viewed as a
single unifying element called the thing/machine (thimac), providing the
ontology for modeling the network. To test its viability, the
thinging-machine-based methodology was applied to an existing computer network
to produce a single integrated, diagrammatic representation that incorporates
communication, software and hardware. The resultant description shows a viable,
coherent depiction that can replace the current methods.
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