Embeddable, Java-based IP discovery engine.

Don't waste your time and money writing a discovery engine from scratch. Jump start your product development with Network Ferret.
Features Features
  • Multiple address discovery strategies
  • Focus on switch and router connectivity
  • Highly scalable
  • Simple Java API with excellent development support tools
  • Supports all versions of SNMP and AES/DES encryption

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  • NMS Applications (fault, performance, config, security and asset)
  • NMS Service Providers
  • Application and Service management products that need a view into the network.
  • Asset discovery for network consulting
  • Factory Automation
  • Academic Institutions

Network Ferret Licensing Options:

  • Yearly Object Code Subscription
  • Purchase of Source Code
  • Combination

Network Ferret Address Licensing Options:

  • Currently providing free copies

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"In Network Ferret, we found a Java-based discovery engine that was designed to be embedded. It fit right in with our existing architecture and was very easy to integrate."
Vikas Aggarwal
– CTO, Fidelia Technology, Inc. (Now Zyrion)

Build or Buy?

A discovery engine is not a one-time development project. It is a constant maintenance issue because:

  • Vendors don't follow standards, can't follow standards or the standard does not exist
  • Users build unconventional networks
  • There are always new devices and new technologies being developed

Network Ferret offers a better alternative for discovery.

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Latest Release: 5.0.0

February, 2009

  • Discovery via crawling rather than ping sweeps. Ping sweeps are inefficient on sparse networks and will not function well in an IPv6 environment.
  • AES encryption for SNMPv3
  • L2 connectivity via LLDP and GVRP in addition to previous mechanisms
  • Performance enhancements

For a full release history click here.