Network Administration Visualized
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=================================== Network Administration Visualized
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This is NAV - Network Administration Visualized - an advanced software suite to monitor small and large computer networks.
:Homepage: https://nav.uninett.no/ :Documentation: https://nav.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ :Bug tracker and release management: https://github.com/Uninett/nav
License
NAV is licensed under the GNU GPL version 3. NAV includes software from third parties, which are either licensed under the GPL or compatible licenses.
- Copyright 2002-2021 Uninett AS
- Copyright 2022-2026 Sikt
See individual source files for more detailed copyright notices.
3rd parties
Some of the graphics icons come altered and/or unaltered from the Tango Icon
Library (http://tango.freedesktop.org/) or other public domain collections.
Most of these are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike
license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/).
This product includes color specifications and designs developed by Cynthia
Brewer (http://colorbrewer.org/). These color schemes are Copyright (c) 2002
Cynthia Brewer, Mark Harrower, and The Pennsylvania State University and are
licensed under the Apache License v2.0.
Installation
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For detailed instructions on how to install NAV, see
`<doc/intro/install.rst>`_. See the file `<NOTES.rst>`_ for release notes and
upgrade instructions.
Take it for a quick spin
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For instruction on how to use docker to run code straight from the repo, see
`<doc/hacking/using-docker.rst>`_. Please be aware, though, that this is a highly developer-oriented environment, and is not suitable for production use.
Contributing
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For instructions on how to contribute to NAV, please read
`<doc/hacking/hacking.rst>`_ .