I thought I would share a very useful open source network management application that we use called NeDi. You can read about NeDi at:
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(Home Page)
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(NeDi Forum)
You can quickly and easily test a virtual appliance of NeDi at:
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virtual appliance requires you to install VMware player, which is free)
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NeDi Features:
Automated Network Discovery
- Automatically discovers Cisco network devices and learns how they connect to each other (network topology)
Beautiful Web-Interface
- Simple to use
Device Management
- Quickly telnet to a device with just a few clicks
- Make bulk configuration changes to many devices at once
- Archive device configurations and report configuration changes
Reporting
- Location of users on the network (DNS-->IP-->MAC-->Switch-->Port)
- Show which IP addresses are being used, and which ones are available
- Report by device name, type, serial number, software version, vlans, and much more!
Monitor Performance
- Graph traffic statistics on every interface
- View the available memory and CPU utilization of network devices
Monitor Availability
- Poll network devices
- Send email or SMS alerts when a device goes down
Monitor Errors
- Receive and display SNMP Traps from devices
- Receive and display Syslog messages from devices
- Display error rates on interfaces
NeDi (Network Discovery Suite) was created by Remo Rickli. NeDiVA was created by Tristan Rhodes.