NetDisco Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Finding port assignments by mac address on HP switch

  If it's an ongoing task, perhaps http://netdisco.org/ would be useful for you? Source: about 1 year ago

• Considering a network overhaul. Need advice on Fortinet/FortiSwitch/Aruba/etc.

  Currently the Arubas are managed by CLI/NetDisco. Its great, but NetDisco cant do much beyond identifying devices, and setting the untagged vlan - and I need to break out putty for anything else. Source: over 1 year ago

• Who doesn't enjoy network programming/automation

  Netdisco does this. http://netdisco.org/. Source: over 1 year ago

• Is there a paid or free tool/utility out there I can use to automate the creation of a decent network diagram?

  Http://netdisco.org/ can generate network maps. Source: over 1 year ago

• Service to keep track of network devices

  On another job I’ve successfully used netdisco for this! Source: over 1 year ago

• Network mapping tool

  Check out netdisco http://netdisco.org/. Source: almost 2 years ago

• What do you make your diagrams with?

  For a decent network map you really need a network mapper and one of the finest has to be Netdisco - http://netdisco.org/. You will need to get CDP/LLDP(etc) and SNMP running everywhere to get the best out of it. Their support mailing list is one of the best. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Find what IP is on which port?

  If you have compute power Netdisco is an awesome opensource tool that uses SNMP and can map your network. It’s a webui. It will grab ARPs from the router and then the MACs from switches and tell you exactly what port a particular IP address is. You can do some things like enabling/disabling a port. It will also grab port configurations. Highly recommend. Source: about 2 years ago

• Help Creating a Site Map

  Netdisco is a great tool. I spun up an instance in docker and now I know what switch and port every device is connected to. Source: about 2 years ago

• Tool for Network Documentation/Asset Management

  You could check out netdisco.org, might be useful. Apart from that, just SSH between switches and run LLDP/CDP neighbor checks to find neighboring devices. This sounds like a one-time thing so it may be quickest to do it manually. Source: about 2 years ago

• What Open Source Projects Are You Using?

  Netdisco - Network discovery and SNMP management. Source: about 2 years ago

• Cisco CNA alternative for GUI control of Cisco stuff?

  Check http://netdisco.org/ And slightly mode advanced https://www.packetfence.org/. Source: over 2 years ago

• You just discovered a new unknown IP / MAC in your subnet. What do you do right away?

  A useful tool is http://netdisco.org/ so you don't have to log into each switch to trace down MAC and IP addresses. Source: over 2 years ago

• How to enable level 1-2 desktop team members to make minor network changes without giving them too much access?

  Http://netdisco.org/ can do this via SNMP. It has some logic that is supposed to stop them from making changes to trunk ports. Source: over 2 years ago

• Huge undocumented network, need some pointers

  Set up netdisco and have it discover everything. You'll have to seed it switch IPs and have snmp RO set up but it should be able to help map things out. Use oxidized to get the configs, this will need an account on the switches and knowledge of all the switch IPs. This would be my bare minimum. Make some diagrams too, manually doing this helps me understand how things are laid out and connected. Source: almost 3 years ago

• ProCurve Network Admin

  We have started to use netdisco - http://netdisco.org. Might be overkill for your network, but it will let you monitor, manage, and map out your network from one place, using snmp. We are using it for HP/Aruba and Cisco. Source: about 3 years ago