Why NetAdmin?
One of the major task a system administrator must do is to maitaint an up to date set of network topologies in order to debug the network or to search for information about the network like the ip address of an equipment or who is in charge of a specific segment of the network.
The usual thing to do that is to store your configurations in text files or using Excel spreadsheets. These are fine methods to store info like the list of hosts on the network and their ip addresses. But now let’s supose that you have to do a big network design, or to document one, with a couple of switches, dedicated routers and a lot of servers. You whant to partition the network using vlans, connect different sites of the company through tunnels, etc. In this case the Excel spreadsheet is obsolete.
Now it is time to use a dedicated tool to do the job. NetAdmin can manage usual network equipment like switches, routers and hosts. For every equipment in part the are a set of attributes that will make your network documentation task easy. For example if you define a switch then you can add ports to that switch, ports that have a number, vlantag, port mode (access or trunk) and finnaly the port belongs to a network. But there are also a router connected to that network. The powerfull part of the software will be generating the full network topology based on your added information.
Usualy when you work on a large network design you don’t work alone. Using the NetAdmin you will have the ability to share your work with others and set the apropriate permitions.
NetAdmin work flow
The NetAdmin work flow consists of the following steps:
- define network elements like switches, routers, hosts
- define the networks
- atach the network elements ports to the coresponding network
- generate the network topology
When it will be available?
The software will be released in beta version in about a month and it will be free of charge.
Update:
Due to school activities the development processes is behind schedule.
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