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What is Net LineDancer?
Net LineDancer (netLD) is designed to help network engineers manage and change the configurations of the network devices (routers, switches, firewalls, etc.). netLD provides hardware inventory reports, configuration change history, line-by-line comparisons, automated changes, real-time change detection, reports and more It also provides a beautifully intuitive but powerful GUI.
Net LineDancer is the first in the industry to support IPv6!
Why is NCCM Important?
When your network is down it causes serious damage to your customers, sales, and productivity. It's been said the damage costs can reach up to 1% of gross annual sales. More than 75% of network failures arise from human-error in network device configuration.
Net LineDancer Solution
netLD will cut the costs of network configuration and change management (NCCM) dramatically by tracking configuration changes and helping to automate changes, minimizing the likelihood of human error and speeding recovery when it occurs. Net LineDancer is designed to manage thousands of network devices with Smart Bridge technology.
Configuration Management
- Scheduled Network Backups
- Real-Time Backups
- Historical Configuration Comparison
- Configuration Restore
- Change Reports
Change Management
- Standardized Change Tools like Password Change and VLAN assignment.
- Scheduled and On-demand Changes
- Routing and Neighbor Information
- Cisco Plug and Play* Provisioning
- *Zero-Touch has changed the name to Cisco Plug and Play from Net LineDancer ver.14.06.
Inventory Management
- Hardware Inventory
- - Chassis, Slot, Card, and Power Supply information
- - Serial Numbers, FRU Part Numbers, Revision Numbers
- Device OS Upgrade
- OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, CDP, and NDP Routing Information
- ARP, MAC Address, IP Address information
Load Distribution System
- SmartBridge
New Features
- Active Directory Server integration
- Redundancy feature that is available to Linux only. (option)
- Search by IPaddress in the static credential
Net LineDancer development adheres to the following principals:
- Continually simplify
- Design for the future
- Focus on the essential
What is Net StreetDancer?
Net StreetDancer (netSD/NSD) free version covers 80% functions Net LineDancer, flag-ship product, performs. It supports 10 nodes.
This video introduces main features of netSD briefly. [00:02:08]
Scenes where netSD can be made good use of
- netSD allows you to automatically login to devices as netSD can take advantage of credentials backed up.
- netSD is perfect for periodical backups for key routers and switches and allow you to compare configurations of BEFORE/AFTER.
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Test Result of Net StreetDancer vs. Manual Operation (2013/11/21)
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Comparison of the login time to 10 Cisco devices
Manual login : 339 seconds
Login by netSD : 73 seconds (Shorten 78.5% !)
About five times productivity!
The more number of managed nodes is increased, the more overwhelming labor saving is possible.
Net StreetDancer vs. Tera Term Macro.... Let's compare!
First Comparison :
We are please to provide comparisons for your quicker understanding of netSD here.
Net StreetDancer vs. Tera Term Macro
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| ② | Automatic Discovery to Multiple Devices at Once |  |
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| ③ | Automatic Configuration Backup to Multiple Devices at Once*1 | |
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| ④ | Configuration Comparison of Before and After Backup | |
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| ⑤ | Comparison of Return Value of Show Commands | |
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| ⑥ | Multi-Vendor Support and Comparison of Return Value*2 | |
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| ⑦ | Conflict Report and Comparison*3 | |
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| ⑧ | Repeat Feature of Job*4 | |
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| ⑨ | Restoration of Failed Devices | |
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| ⑩ | Backup of Multiple Enterprise and Overlapping IP Addresses | |
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| ⑪ | Export CSV of ③⑤⑥ (IP Address, Host Name, Date) | |
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| ⑫ | Inventory Management | |
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| ⑬ | Setting Speed*5 | 1/10 |
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- Tera Term (△) - Macro is used and configuration with unnecessary information will be pushed.
- netSD (○) - Return value is acquired by Command Runner feature. Every command is supported!
- If there is a difference between startup-config and running-config, notification, comparison, and application are available.
- Tera Term (△) - Creating script is required. On the other hand, it is built-into netSD.
- As a result of verification which made the access-list configured on 28 devices, processing speed is measured about 10 times (x10) in netLD.
Net StreetDancer vs. Console Server
Second Comparison:
Net LineDancer vs. Net StreetDancer
Product Specification
Third Comparison:
The following comparison information may be changed without notice.
Net LineDancer Enterprise vs. Net StreetDancer
| Parameters | Functional Parameter | Net LineDancer Enterprise | Net StreetDancer |
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| Price | Free |
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| Managable Units | 40,000 devices |
10 devices |
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| Database | Apache Derby |
Apache Derby |
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| Operating Environment | Windows OS | Windows Server 2008/2008 R2/2012 |
Windows Vista (SP2)/7/8 |
| Linux OS | Linux CentOS/RedRat 6.x/7.x |
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| VMware | vSphere |
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| Manageable Device | TCP/IP only | |
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| Switch | |
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| Router | |
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| Firewall | |
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| VPN Concentrator | |
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| Load Balancer | |
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| LAN Accelerator | |
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| Wireless LAN Access Point | |
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| Other | SNMP-based Network Devices |
SNMP-based Network Devices |
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| Protocol | SNMP v1/v2/v3 | |
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| SSH v1/v2 | |
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| TFTP | |
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| FTP | |
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| HTTP/S | |
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| IPv6 | |
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| SCP | |
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| Serial | |
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Feature
| Parameters | Functional Parameter | Net LineDancer Enterprise | Net StreetDancer |
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| Device Discovery | SNMP | |
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| CLI ARP cache | |
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| CLI OSPF neighbors | |
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| CLI EIGRP neighbors | |
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| Configuration Management | Configuration Capture | |
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| Configuration Revision History | |
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| Configuration Comparison | Same device and cross-device |
Same device and cross-device |
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| Change Tool Output Comparison | |
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| Configuration Restore | |
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| Full-text search | |
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| IOS Image Backup | |
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| Device View | Inventory Management | |
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| Sort by Backup Status | |
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| Custom Fields | |
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| Device Property Collection | OS Version | |
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| Make/Model | |
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| Memory | |
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| CPU | |
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| Serial Number | |
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| Card/Slot information | |
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| Device Picture Display | |
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| Search Capabilties | Specific IP (IPv4 and IPv6) | |
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| Devices in Subnet (IPv4 and IPv6) | |
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| Interface IP search | |
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| Hostname (including wildcard) | |
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| Make/Model (including wildcard) | |
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| OS Version (including comparison operator) | |
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| Changed Date | |
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| Backup Status | |
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| Custom Fields | |
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| Serial Numbers | |
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| Custom Tags | |
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| Full-text Configuration | |
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| Network-wide Switch-Port/IP | |
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| Change Tools | Configuration Restore | |
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| Command Runner (multiple commands) | |
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| Enable/Disable Interfaces | |
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| IOS Software Distribution | |
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| Login Banner (MOTD) | |
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| Name Servers Manager | |
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| NTP Servers | |
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| Port VLAN Assignment | |
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| SNMP Community Strings | |
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| SNMP Trap Hosts | |
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| Syslog Hosts | |
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| Static Routes (add/delete) | |
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| Add/delete device user account | |
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| Enable password change | |
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| VTY password change | |
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| Local User password change | |
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| Perform backup after tool completes | |
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| Bulk Update | Template based configuration change with CSV import for multiple devices | |
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| Excel file import and export | |
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| Add custom menu | |
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| Set schedule | |
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| Zero-Touch (Option) |
Automatic forwarding of IOS configuration | |
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| Import and export of configuration template | |
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| Informational Tools | DNS Lookup | |
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| IP Routing Table | |
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| Live ARP Table | |
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| Ping | |
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| IOS show commands | |
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| Open port scan | |
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| Traceroute | |
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| SNMP System Information | |
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| Interface Summary | |
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| Reporting | Software Summary | |
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| Network Hardware Summary | |
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| Credentials/Protocols | |
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| Backup Summary | |
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| Configuration Changes | |
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| Hardware | |
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| Hardware Changes | |
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| Inventory | |
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| PDF or HTML | |
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| E-Mail support | |
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| Export | Device Configuration in ZIP | |
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| Output for performed Tool in ZIP | |
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| Device Property information in XLS | |
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| Terminal Proxy | Telnet access to server | |
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| SSH access to server | |
(Local Access Only) |
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| Remote access to server | |
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| User operational log history | |
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| Search operational log | |
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| Export operational log | |
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| FTP/TFTP | FTP/TFTP Server | |
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Management
| Parameters | Functional Parameter | Net LineDancer Enterprise | Net StreetDancer |
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| Job Scheduling | Configuration Backup | |
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| Reports | |
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| Device Discovery | |
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| Daily schedules | |
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| Weekly schedules | |
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| Monthly schedules | |
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| Custom schedules | |
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| Time-window Filters | |
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| Job History | Interactive execution history | |
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| Scheduled execution history | |
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| Execution start/stop time | |
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| Execution user | |
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| Execution group | |
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| Configuration Mismatch | Detect and display compliance violation of startup-config and running-config | |
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| Rollback (copy startup-config into running-config) | |
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| Commit (copy running-config into startup-config) | |
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| Change Adviser | Check the configuration before pushing and generate shortfall automatically | |
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| Draft Configurations | Reflect newly made text as a configuration to device | |
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| Compliance Check | Custom rule | |
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| Filtering for applying devices | |
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| Trap for detection or resolution of the rule | |
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| Pie chart for violation devices | |
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| Real-time status icon | |
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| Credentials/Protocols | Assignment by Specific IP | |
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| Assignment by IP Range | |
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| Assignment by Subnet | |
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| Excel import for multiple credentials | |
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| Access Control | Easy settings in GUI | |
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| Add users | |
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| Set roles | |
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| Server Settings (GUI) | Scheduled System Backup | |
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| Quick System Backup | |
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| SmartBridges (Option) | |
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| Networks | |
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| Software Update | |
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| Data Retention | |
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| SNMP Traps | |
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| Mail Server | |
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| Custom Tags | Organize devices by tags | |
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| Multiple tags per device | |
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| Tag search (with AND/OR logic) | |
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| Web Interface | Internet Explorer 7 or later | |
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| Firefox | |
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| Safari | |
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| Remote access | |
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| API | Public API | |
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| SOAP Web-services | |
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| Multiple-language support | |
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| Network Manager interaction | Custom menu to open netLD configuration diff from device icon | Only with SNMPc Network Manager |
Only with SNMPc Network Manager |
| SNMP traps in an event of such as device added or deleted | |
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| Customization | Devices Adapters | |
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| Device Tools | |
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| Language | Perl |
Perl |