Latest news

Summer 2020: Added VLAN monitoring and devices guessing using switches ARP table etc..

Spring 2020: Added UI to give system stat (memory, cpu, temp), ovrall better UX.

Oct 2019: Artel switch supported in desktop app, settings menu and daily app build !

Sept 2019: Fixed a bug preventing connection to cisco switch.... if you tried and were unhappy, test latest version

Detailed manuals

UI manual

Architecture

Advanced use

Switch Support

1. On Cisco, do not put a single #in the login or welcome banner

media-network-manager-cloud

Also has the cool name of : MnMs (Media Network M{onitoring,anagement} S{ystem,ervices})

Set of tools for multiplatform real time media network (ST2110, AES67, Dante... ) monitoring and administration This is aimed a being a swarm of microservices all connected to a mission control app or website.

It is work in progress. At the moment it:

• Shows the topology of the network
• Shows the different VLANs using colors
• Gives information on switch ports: what is it connected to, bandwith, VLAN, multicast group registration..
• Shows the different MDNS services and, if there, shows SDP information and if it is AES67, ST-2022-7
• Traces the groups registration on the network (light the network path where the group has been registered)

You can find an aggregated/app form of the tools here (nightly build):

Linux

MacOS (copy the app in /Applications folder)

Windws

You would have to accept some security warnings to launch the app. Or you can take the whole repository and build-it yourself.

First run

A pop up will appear for the first run, inviting you to connect to a switchs. Cisco switch need telnet to be enabled (see Limitations)

Launching switches by hand (Artel, Cisco, SNMP... custom user/pwd)

Open the left menu

Click on services

Choose the switch you want

Enter data

Here it should be there

Limitations

Avoid any # in the welcome or login banner

The SG3XX switches MUST have telnet access enabled, mDNS/Bonjour is always better.

Does MDNS query on the default interface, does not yet give you the choice of it

The app will create a webserver running on port 8888, you can then access the UI from other devices on the network

Right now... this is only data mining and shaping

Installig from github

Run the script "install.sh" to pull all the dependencies in every directory, then node main in the mission-control sub dir.

Components

More info in the architecture page.

Arhitecure

The central point of the system is the "mission control", it manages other services based on what is discovered and configured.

mission control

The user ui, builds a MDNS directory

cisco switch

SG3XX data mining via telnet

mdns-browser

Service doing MDNS query and data shaping for mission control

mnms-client-ws-interface

Web socket client module to connect to mission control

rtsp-sdp-query

Does simple query to get SDP from RRTSP

MnMs-desktop

The electron app builder, firt run npm cloud-copy before npm package-

Debug, custom UI

A smal rest API localhost:8888/noodes gives you the full inner data you can even use key/value pairs to filter the data localhost:8888/nodes?Type=switch will only give you the switches

About the poject owner

I am Nicolas Sturmel, technical product manager and developer at Merging Technology, focusing on Media Network implmentations (test, validation, tools for users and installers).

This project is not linked with Merging, any question or comment will be handled by me on a best effort basis.

Licence

MIT, do what you want with the code. If you are looking for a custom solution, you can contact me !