What is NAV?
Network Administration Visualized is an advanced software suite to monitor large computer networks. It automatically discovers network topology, monitors network load and outages, and can send alerts on network events by e-mail and SMS, allowing for flexible configuration of alert profiles.
NAV was developed at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Development started in 1999. It originated as a collection of scripts used internally at NTNU's ITEA Network group. In 2001 UNINETT became interested in its development, and has since been funding NAV development at NTNU on behalf of all universities and colleges in Norway. In 2006 the development of NAV was moved from NTNU to UNINETT.
NAV is free, available under the GNU GPLv2 license. The latest stable version of NAV is 3.5.5 (released 16 February 2010).
The NAV tools
Overview of NAV
Download and Use NAV
Roadmap and Development
Contact
- Subscribe to our mailinglists…
- …or connect to our IRC channel #nav on freenode.net (You'll be most likely to find activity there Monday-Friday between 08-16 CET).
NAV history
- The history and evolution of NAV
- Reports from NAV development projects (the early days)
What is MetaNAV?
The MetaNAV Wiki is where you are right now - the documentation home for NAV. Being a wiki - anyone can contribute. The MetaNAV wiki will not allow anonymous edits - you need to register first (Click Login at the bottom of this page, then Register). If you are new to wikis, take a look at the syntax for jumpstart.
The MetaNAV wiki was converted from MoinMoin to DokuWiki on May 11th 2007 (edit history has been lost). Registered users of the old wiki will have to register again to edit pages.
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