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OmniGraffle is an application for drawing diagrams available on Mac OS X written by the Omni Group.

A particularly nice feature of OmniGraffle is the ease with which new stencil palettes can be created in order to extend the functionality of the program.

I spend a lot of my working day using Visio to draw diagrams to illustrate Enterprise IT environments and architecture documents. In an effort to allow me to create diagrams for my own documents which have a similar look and feel to those I create in work I have started creating a set of palettes for OmniGraffle.

While of limited interest the palettes will be made available here as they reach some level of completion.

[Note: I claim no artistic ability; take them for what they are :-)]

Enterprise Systems Palette

[Release Version: 0.02 Last Updated: 21^st February 2002]   [Download]

The first palette in the series contains the following stencils:-

• HP9000 N Class Front View
• HP9000 N Class Rear View
• HP9000 L Class Front View
• HP9000 L Class Rear View
• HP9000 V Class Front View (with shadow)
• HP E-41 Rack Unit (Empty)
• HP E-41 Rack Unit (With 4 N Class Front View)
• HP E-41 Rack Unit (With 4 L Class Front View)

SAN Devices Palette

[Release Version: 0.01 Last Updated: 22^nd March 2002]   [Download]

The SAN Devices palette will eventually contain stencils for Brocade and McData Fibre Channel switches used in creating Storage Area Networks as well as Hewlett Packard's XP Stoarage array and possibly a tape library. Currently only XP512 stencils are complete. The palette currently contains the following stencils:-

• HP XP512 Storage Array DKC And R1 DKU (Smallest Posible Config)
• HP XP512 Storage Array Left Hand DKU (For use as DKU L1 through L3)
• HP XP512 Storage Array Right Hand DKU (For use as DKU R2 and R3)
• HP XP512 Storage Array Full Configuration (DKC, R1-R3 and L1-L3)