Nandisc - NLANR Advanced Network Discovery project

The software for this project is under development, and is not yet available.

Open-source software
- ArgoUML - open source UML drawing tool (related to GEF)
- Big Brother
- CIMOM - Common Information Model Object Manager (used by Sun WBEM)
- GEF - "GRAPH" Editor in Java (related to ArgoUML)
- Jazz graphics package
- JCP - Java Community Process, has links to Doug Lea's Concurrency code
- mibCentral - public MIB library
- nmap - machine OS detector
- Net-SNMP - big SNMP package in C
- OpenNMS
- Ozone - OO database
- scotty
- sysmon - interesting thing! Does network monitoring from a tediously-built config file - no discovery
- Sun WBEM (and old JMX, JMAPI)
- Packet Factory - open-source network software
- Cichlid - really cool graphics package written in C
Organizations
- Boulder Java Users Group
- CAIDA
- CyberGeography - Internet topology layout stufft
- DMTF (CIM)
- Internet2 Network Management Working Group
- Telemanagement Forum (was Network Management Forum)
- TINA-C - Telecommunications model, like DMTF-CIM
Academic papers & Books
- Layer-2 Path Discovery Using Spanning Tree MIBs
- Overview of the 2002 IAB Network Management Workshop
- Network Discovery by Christos Gkantsidis - includes links to other projects
- Network Discovery by Chan, Chang & Estan
- Methods of Internet Topology Discovery: A Comparative Study by A. Melendez and A. Qasem, May '00.
- Automated Network Design Tools by Natahn J. Muller - a survey of various tools, circa Jan 1998
- Network Management: What it is and what it isn't by Douglas W. Stevenson
- Building Network Management Tools with Tcl/Tk by Dave Zeltserman, Gerard Puoplo, ISBN 0130807273.
  This book documents discovery.itcl and scotty. To get the source code for discovery.itcl, you have to buy the book and use a password that's in the book.
- Taming Java Threads by Allen Holub
Information sources
- jguru - a place to ask Java questions
- IEEE Xplore - for searching IEEE stuff - requires membership
- Network Discovery by hackers, by Ron Ritchie
- Research Index - for finding papers about a given topic.
- Sun Java Developers Connection
- Sun Java packages docs
- Human Interface Design in Java
- Java Look and Feel Design Guidelines
- Cisco ATM discovery scenario Troubleshooting the ANI Discovery Used by Campus Manager and UserTracking
Products
- HP OpenView
- InterMapper
- InterMapper at USC
- Rational
- Scientific Application Company - claims to have a Layer 2 discovery product
- SolarWinds - network discovery tools for Windows
- Tom Sawyer - "GRAPH" Editor in Java, looks great, costs money
- WhatsUp
- LOOX software - JAVA for the presentation of NMS systems, with all the pieces
Projects similar to this one
- Internet2 Network Management Working Group
- The NetMap Project at UCSB
- PathFinder Project at Rhodes University
- Argus project at Cornell (includes a survey of Network Discovery tools). This fascinating paper discusses deveral strategies for doing discovery. For instance, if you're discovering a network that has SNMP devices, you find your seed routers and then look in it's routing table to find it's neighbors. If you did this for all routers, limited by the IP ranges configured in by the administrator of the discovery tool, you could very quickly find all the routers in your domain.
- Layer 2 Query Protocol - slides from a talk about a Java app that gets network information. Talk given by Mark Meiss
UML

Pete Siemsen

Last modified: Wed Nov 26 11:17:14 MST 2003