Azure Local Draftsman documentation
Draftsman is a browser-based cabling and compliance diagramming tool for Azure Local network architectures. These guides cover designing, wiring, validating and exporting a cluster network. Open the app at https://azurelocal.cloud/azurelocal-draftsman/.
Guides
- Cabling standards: dual-ToR cross-connect, switchless storage and rack-aware wiring, cable media, SET teams, OOB cabling.
- Logical networks and VLANs: the default VLAN schedule, the Network ATC storage defaults (711, 712, 713) and custom VLANs.
- Network ATC intents and cluster patterns: switched, switchless and rack-aware patterns; intent layouts; saved-diagram migration.
- Compliance auditor: the 16 rules, each with its Microsoft Learn source.
- Cable schedule and switch port map exporters: CSV and TXT formats.
- draw.io export: the
.drawioexport and how it compares with Trailwright's. - Guided setup wizard: generate an audit-clean topology in five steps.
Origin
Draftsman is forked from AzLoFlows by Cristian Edwards Sabathe (MIT licence, kept in the repository). The Azure Local traffic-flow scenarios of the upstream project remain available in the app under Scenarios and Templates.