From: Nic B. <ni...@on...> - 2013-01-14 20:40:54
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Oliver, Thanks for this blessing! Wonderful stuff! Found a few typos in perl5/lib/perl5/App/Netdisco/Web/Device.pm the word 'schema' is spelled 'schmea' in four places. Cheers, and keep up the good work! -nic On 01/06/2013 06:04 AM, Oliver Gorwits wrote: > Hi folks, > > There's been talk of a major update of Netdisco for some time, and in > the past year myself and a couple of the other core team members have > been tinkering away, exploring ideas and concepts, and discussing > things on IRC. > > We think it's time to take this to the next step. After a year of > development we have a pretty solid frontend, and a daemon which can do > device/port control. Also, Netdisco 2 is packaged as a CPAN > distribution which makes it really easy to install and, importantly, > upgrade. It uses several Modern Perl libraries and techniques which > should ensure longevity. > > But let me be clear: there are missing features which mean this is > still "next generation" and not the official version. In short, you > don't have any reports, device module display, or display of wireless, > IP phone or NetBIOS information. Crucially, there's also no device > discovery/arpnip/macsuck. > > Hey, that still leaves a lot of functionality though: searching for > device/IP/MAC/VLAN, display of device ports with control of columns, > port control, netmap and so on, all work well. I suspect many sites > could use Netdisco 2 already for their web frontend. > > This demo should give you a taste of things (it's slow, only because > of the hosting): > http://demo-ollyg.dotcloud.com/netdisco > > The install is designed to be self-contained within a "netdisco" > user's home area if you want, so you can easily try the new frontend > alongside an existing Netdisco 1 installation (Netdisco 2 can simply > point at your Netdisco 1 database). Without further ado, here are the > links you need to get started: > > Main distribution on CPAN with installation docs: > https://metacpan.org/module/App::Netdisco > > Source code: > git://netdisco.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/netdisco/netdisco-ng > > Mail list to receive copies of source code updates: > <net...@li...> > > All feedback's welcome, of course, either to these mail lists or the > IRC channel #netdisco on Freenode. > > Have fun! > > regards, > oliver. > > -- Nic Bernstein ni...@on... Onlight, Inc. www.onlight.com 219 N. Milwaukee St., Suite 2a v. 414.272.4477 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202 |