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bongodongobobyesterday at 10:36 PM0 repliesview on HN

That's impossible to do reliably without using agents, SNMP, or some other kind of communication protocol that you'll have to set up on each device. If you're ok with that, use SNMP. If you want topology, you'll have to have an agent that logs into all your networking gear and parses the configs.