Threaded discovery is more  complex than expected, especially with perl on OpenBSD not supporting threads out of the box!

But other large scale network features like timezones for users and a master / agent architecture (via HTTPS) are under development as well…

Bear with me as I try to get all this into a stable package. And please use the share button below, if you like what you just read! There’s much more to come… I promise!

It’s great to see, how NeDi still gets more popular!

I’m wondering how many people would be interested in joining me for a talk in Zurich. There’s a great platform at Digicomp to present the latest developments and some interesting use cases. Let me know via forum or drop me a mail…

I finally managed to release the Get Started tutorial. Besides installing NeDi on Ubuntu and using NeDiO7, I’m sharing some insight on the architecture and the discovery process itself.

It’s a highly condensed session, but I wanted to get all this out of the way at first. Feel free to comment and use the new media to improve the learning experience…

The only DB change since rc1 (nedi-338) was due to Aruba Wlan controllers:

alter table modules change modidx modidx VARCHAR(32);


It might as well be ignored for now, since this is a work in progress anyways. If your installation has write access through the webserver, you can simply update via System-Files…

It’s going to be a great opportunity to show the latest developments and how NeDi supports the SNAG-view management system…

Thanks to Sector Nord AG for inviting me and the great support!

If I was to use codenames, nedi 1.0.7 definitely should be called Janus…

But wait, it took me forever for 1.0.6 and only weeks after that I’m announcing a new version, you might ask? Yes, because besides being really busy at my regular job (still paying all our bills), I spent ridiculous amounts of time to rebuild a lot of the internal logic. The changes turned out to be more efficient than expected and multi-tenancy (hence Janus) was a small step for a man, one giant leap for the NeDi community!

BTW, while poking around in my code I had a feeling, which I recently found a name for…

Eagleson's Law:
Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months, might as well have been written by someone else. (Eagleson is an optimist, the real number is more like three weeks.)

Anyway…updating from 1.0.6 is easy. Just upload this archive with System-Files, if your webserver has write access to NeDi. Don’t forget to backup your config files! There’s a new option to set rrdsize in nedi.conf, but NeDi just uses 1000, if it’s not used…

If you see “view” on the bottom of the users table in System-Export (depends on which version you initialized the DB with):

Use Export with “alter table users change view viewdev VARCHAR(255);” like this:

Now you’re ready to test the curret beta, with many small fixes and multi-tenancy features…

I updated the forum to keep everything safe. Feel free to sign up and join our community, but please use your work email accounts. No worries I’m not giving them away, but I don’t trust mass mailing accounts due to the spammers. Thanks for your understanding…