Microsoft® Office Visio® 2007 Inside Out

Tracking and Reporting on Network Equipment

To add detail to a high-level network diagram, you can add data to the equipment shapes. This means either typing or importing information such as manufacturer, product name, description, and model number, and storing it with the shapes in your diagram. Network shapes include built-in data fields called custom properties that you can use to track asset and equipment information with your network diagram, as Figure 14-16 shows.

Figure 14-16. Basic network equipment shapes include built-in custom properties that you can use to store more detailed information about the devices in a network diagram.