Patent ID: 7703018

Claim:
A computer controlled method, comprising: accessing, by a computer, a plurality of available virtual local area networks, a plurality of configured virtual local area network groups, a plurality of available primary devices, and a plurality of available related devices; displaying, by the computer, a plurality of graphical user interfaces to obtain a plurality of user inputs defining a plurality of configured virtual local area networks, a plurality of configured virtual local area network groups, a plurality of configured primary devices and a plurality of configured related devices; responsive to receiving the plurality of user inputs, creating a plurality of automatically generated instructions, and sending the plurality of automatically generated instructions to a separate and independent drawing program in order to cause the separate and independent drawing program to create and to print a diagram of the plurality of configured primary devices and the plurality of configured related devices wherein a connectivity for each configured primary device and each configured related device is defined by a virtual local area network group identification created as part of the user input; and wherein the separate and independent drawing program creates and prints the diagram of the network solution in response to the plurality of automatically generated instructions.