Device Management

How NetStacks keeps track of your network devices: local sessions in the standalone Terminal, and the central Managed Devices inventory on the NetStacks Controller.

Add devices to the standalone Terminal as sessions, or to the NetStacks Controller's central inventory by hand, from CSV/JSON, from NetBox, or from discovery.

Browse, search and connect to devices from the Terminal sidebar: local sessions in standalone mode, or the Controller's inventory in enterprise mode.

The vendors and platforms NetStacks understands: Terminal CLI flavors, Controller device types, and the commands used to back up each platform.

Import devices from NetBox into the standalone Terminal as sessions, or sync them into the NetStacks Controller's central inventory.

Work with many devices at once: broadcast commands to several sessions in the Terminal, and bulk-edit, back up, manage or unmanage devices on the Controller.

Back up device configurations on the NetStacks Controller over SSH, gNMI or NETCONF, one device at a time or as named multi-device snapshots.

Browse every stored configuration version of a device, compare two versions side by side, track when a line was added or removed, and keep notes.

Find devices and their neighbours with LLDP/CDP over SNMP v2c, CLI and nmap from the Terminal, and run continuous fleet discovery with the NetStacks Crawler on the Controller.

Build, discover and explore network diagrams in the Terminal's 2D and 3D topology views, share them through the Controller, and map devices from discovery data.

On-demand SNMP v2c polling in NetStacks: interface quick looks in the terminal, the live topology overlay, Network Tools on the Controller, and crawler SNMP collection.