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Open Network Administrator (ONA)—A Web-based Network Management Tool
This paper presents Open Network Administrator (ONA), a web-based network management tool. Network administrators interact with ONA over the web, and ONA interacts with routers, switches and access points, using telnet and/or SNMP.
ONA provides a common web interface to a number of different vendors' network products, and provides granular access control, permitting network administrators across multiple departments to manage a network in a consistent manner. In addition to typical day-to-day operations like changing switch port speed, duplex, VLAN, etc., ONA performs a number of other maintenance operations, such as automatically backing up switch configurations, maintaining traffic graphs, and sending device reboot/up/down alerts via e-mail.
ONA leverages some existing components, such as RRDtool [1] and CVSweb [2]. A summary of existing tools, both commercial and open source, is provided, with comparisons made to ONA.
At the University of Waterloo, where there is both a central IT group and many sizeable decentralized autonomous IT groups, ONA rapidly gained widespread enthusiastic acceptance.
author = {Bruce Campbell and Robyn Landers},
title = {Open Network Administrator ({ONA){\textemdash}A} Web-based Network Management Tool},
booktitle = {19th Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA 05)},
year = {2005},
address = {San Diego, CA},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa-05/open-network-administrator-ona{\textemdash}-web-based-network-management-tool},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = dec
}
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