About NeDi
The Story So Far
It all started out as a bunch of scripts to retreive the MAC-Address tables off switches and display where nodes are connected to the network. Now, 352 years later it's still a bunch of scripts, but retrieving a whole lot more stuff and displaying even more information than what's ever been retrieved before…or something like that!
The idea is to keep everything simple and appealing, with that you'd happily perform otherwise boring tasks like locating a hacked node somewhere on the network.
Besides the fancy icons, I wanted to keep the whole system open in terms of expandability. Virtually any device can be supported and new (web-)modules can be added easily, with the appropriate PHP knowledge.
Disclaimer
NeDi is a quite powerful network management suite. It works fine in our environment. It hasn't caused any damage or outage yet! I won't take any responsibility, if you manage to do so with NeDi!
Current Situation
I've been working on this since 2001 now. In the year 2008 big changes will affect the NeDi project. It remains to be seen how future development will be organized, but it will continue!
Forum
- Use search, help each other and put your knowledge into this wiki. I'll answer posts, as I find the time.
- Due to steadily increasing spam posts, I've disabled open registration. If you want to become a member use an official email address from your company and a reasonable name. Otherwhise you'll be ignored! (Thank those, who don't care about anything else than their wallet)
- If you want to help me with forum moderation/administartion let me know :)
The Future
NeDi benefits from an ever growing community. People are actively supporting the development by pinpointing problems and (even better) coming up with the fix for them. I can't develop on every possible network device, as I cannot try every possible version of PHP and MySQL. So, if you have a problem and don't find a fix in the forum, try to narrow it down as much as possible before asking in the forum….
In order to improve device support, it would be great, if you could share your .def file in the forum. Please keep in mind that NeDi's quality depends on its accuracy! You can also donate network hardware, in order to improve chances of proper support (I hope you understand, that I cannot guarantee this, though).
