Open source network management tool that discovers switches and routers over SNMP and lets you locate devices by MAC or IP, browse ports and track inventory.
Pricing and hosting
- Pricing
- Free
- Open source
- Yes (BSD-3-Clause)
- Self-hosted
- Yes
- Launched
- 2003
- Status
- Active
- Website
- netdisco.org
Plans and prices change; check the tool's own site before you decide.
What it does
Network monitoring checklist
3 of 10 confirmed in Netdisco's own documentation. The same checklist is used for every tool in Network.
- SNMP polling Yes
- Flow analysis Not confirmed
- Device discovery Yes
- Topology maps Yes
- Latency and path Not confirmed
- Bandwidth graphs Not confirmed
- Syslog and traps Not confirmed
- Configuration backup Not confirmed
- Alerting Not confirmed
- Wireless Not confirmed
Inventory/port-location tool; discovery follows CDP/LLDP neighbours.
Checked against: github.com, metacpan.org, netdisco.org
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