Microsoft® Office Visio® 2003 Step by Step

Chapter 8. Creating Network Diagrams

In this chapter you will learn to:

• Connecting Shapes in Network Diagrams

• Storing Information with Network Shapes

• Store information with network shapes

• Creating Network Reports

Organizations of any size can use network diagrams to plan, document, and troubleshoot network infrastructures. Using the Basic Network Diagram template in Microsoft Office Visio, you can diagram a wide variety of computer and network equipment and their physical and logical relationships. You can also store data, such as serial number, location, manufacturer, network name, product description, and so on, with the equipment shapes in a network diagram. You can then use that data to create your own network reports that you can store in spreadsheets ...