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# netOrk — Product Description

## Positioning (since 2026-09)

- **Message:** control instead of drift. Define once how the network should be
  set up; netOrk notices every change on access points, switches and firewalls,
  shows what deviates and puts it back. Automatic fixing exists for access point
  profiles; firewall profiles are compared and applied on demand; switch VLANs
  are provisioned centrally; every configuration change is versioned in Git and
  flagged when netOrk did not make it.
- **Primary audience:** IT departments in small and mid-sized companies.
- **Licence model:** netOrk itself is free. A licence (Starter / Pro /
  Enterprise, price on request, sold through the licence portal) adds
  vulnerability data from the netOrk Knowledge Base and image updates. One key
  per netOrk instance; no limits on devices, sites or users. Plan differences:
  vulnerability history 90 days / 1 year / 10 years, match evidence and CWE
  details from Pro, the edge update channel for Enterprise. Source:
  license-server plan defaults, mirrored in `src/data/plans.ts`.

## One-liner

**netOrk is a self-hosted network orchestration platform that discovers,
monitors, and manages heterogeneous network infrastructure from a single UI.**

## Elevator Pitch (3 sentences)

netOrk connects to your routers, switches, access points, firewalls, and servers
via NAPALM and custom vendor drivers — regardless of manufacturer. It continuously
polls device state, detects configuration drift, and lets you push corrections in
one click. All findings are synced to NetBox as the source of truth, and security
integrations with Wazuh and Graylog give you visibility across the full stack.

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## Target Audience

**Primary:** Network engineers and IT administrators managing small to medium
heterogeneous environments (10–500 devices) — mixed vendor, mixed OS.

**Secondary:** Serious homelab operators who run "prosumer" or enterprise-grade
hardware and want operational visibility beyond what consumer dashboards offer.

**Pain points this solves:**
- Multiple vendor-specific management UIs open at once
- No single view of "what's running where"
- Config changes made directly on devices — nobody knows what changed
- Manual SSH into every device to check interface status or VLAN membership
- Security tooling (Wazuh agents, syslog) not consistently deployed

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## Value Propositions

1. **One UI for everything** — OpenWRT APs, OPNsense firewalls, HP ProCurve
   switches, Proxmox hosts, Linux servers, Fritz!Boxes, NAS devices, and more,
   all managed in one place.

2. **Intent-based configuration** — Define desired state in netOrk (VLAN names,
   SSID settings, AP radio profiles). netOrk pushes the config to devices and
   corrects drift automatically or on demand.

3. **Automatic drift detection** — Every poll compares device config against the
   DB. Drifted devices get a warning; a one-click fix stream applies the
   correction via SSH/UCI/REST and shows live output.

4. **Scheduled automation** — Automatic reboots for OpenWRT APs (GTK key rotation
   workaround), scheduled config fixes, package updates — all with time windows
   and per-site concurrency limits.

5. **Security visibility** — Wazuh agent tracking with CVE counts and alert history
   per device. Graylog syslog forwarding status and auto-fix. CrowdSec org-level
   threat summary per device.

6. **Deep NetBox integration** — Devices, interfaces, IP addresses, prefixes,
   VLANs synced to NetBox automatically. netOrk uses NetBox as the canonical
   documentation target.

7. **Plugin system** — Integrations (Wazuh, Graylog, CrowdSec, apt-cacher-ng)
   are plugins that can be enabled/disabled per deployment. Adding a new
   integration follows a documented pattern.

8. **Self-hosted, no SaaS** — Runs in Docker Compose. Your data stays on your
   infrastructure. No telemetry, no cloud dependency.

9. **NIS2 evidence foundation** — NIS2 Art. 21 mandates asset inventory, patch
   management, access control, and audit trails. netOrk produces all of these as
   day-to-day operational outputs: full device inventory, per-device update status,
   Wazuh CVE tracking, EOL firmware/OS flagging, RBAC with MFA, Git-backed config
   snapshots with diff/restore, config drift detection, and a complete audit log.

10. **Build your own view** — Configurable, shareable dashboards: pick from 13
    widgets, arrange them on a WYSIWYG grid, and share the result with colleagues
    who can subscribe to the live version or clone their own copy.

11. **From zero to managed in one flow** — Provision a Cloud-Init VM on a
    Proxmox hypervisor, assign Ansible roles to configure it, and netOrk
    auto-links it as a Device — no separate tools, no manual SSH-and-copy.

12. **Reach sites netOrk can't touch directly** — Deploy a lightweight
    Satellite agent to poll devices locally at a disconnected or firewalled
    site and sync results back over HTTPS; scheduled fixes route through it
    the same way they do for directly reachable devices.

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## Feature List

### Device Management
- CRUD for devices with credential profiles and SSH key management
- Per-device poll intervals (minutes) or manual-only
- Status tracking: planned / staged / active / decommissioning / offline / disabled
- Vendor/model/OS auto-populated from NAPALM `get_facts()`
- Site assignment with FK to structured Site records
- AP Profile assignment for grouped OpenWRT config
- Web SSH terminal: sessions log in with each user's own SSH key, never the
  device's shared account; opened and refused sessions are recorded. Sessions
  are movable, dockable windows that survive navigating away
- A device can hold several roles at once (e.g. storage + hypervisor + Linux)
- One device per address per site; duplicates are refused (VMs exempt)
- Business criticality per device and site, used in vulnerability ranking

### Discovery
- ICMP ping sweep, SNMP scan, HTTP/HTTPS probing
- Device fingerprinting: vendor + platform confidence scoring
- FQDN resolution (reverse DNS)
- Manual adoption from scan results (no auto-create to avoid inventory noise)
- Discovery jobs in a sortable, filterable table, grouped per site
- LAN Scan: ping sweep from netOrk, each site satellite and every firewall;
  live results with MAC and manufacturer; a finished scan becomes a discovery
  job in one step

### VM Provisioning
- Cloud-Init based VM creation directly from a hypervisor's VMs tab — no
  manual template or VMID setup
- Multi-distro image catalog: Debian 12, Ubuntu 22.04/24.04/26.04,
  Fedora 42/43/44, with Ubuntu and Fedora releases synced automatically as
  new versions ship
- Pick a target VLAN and an IP from its subnet — netOrk creates the DHCP
  reservation automatically
- Cloud-init provisions a real Linux user with an SSH key, plus configurable
  bootstrap toggles (SNMP, QEMU guest agent)
- Reusable provisioning templates for repeatable bootstrap settings
- The new VM is auto-linked as a netOrk Device and its hostname assigned to
  a DNS zone once bootstrap finishes
- Deploy progress shown as a live step checklist in the UI
- Delete a VM and its linked netOrk Device together, gated behind a
  name-confirmation prompt

### Supported Device Drivers
Custom NAPALM drivers for all of the following:

| Driver | Device type |
|---|---|
| `fritzbox` | AVM Fritz!Box routers (read-only) |
| `hpe_officeconnect` | HPE OfficeConnect 1820 / 1920S switches |
| `linux` | Generic Linux servers |
| `netgear_plus` | Netgear Plus switches (web UI) |
| `netgear_smart` | Netgear Smart Managed Pro switches |
| `openmediavault` | OpenMediaVault NAS |
| `openwrt` | OpenWrt routers and access points |
| `opnsense` | OPNsense firewalls |
| `procurve` | HPE ProCurve / Aruba switches |
| `proxmox` | Proxmox VE hypervisors |
| `qnap_qts` | QNAP NAS on QTS |
| `sonos` | Sonos speakers |
| `tplink_jetstream` | TP-Link JetStream managed switches |
| `yealink` | Yealink IP phones |
| `zyxel` | Zyxel VMG routers (not switches) |

The built-in NAPALM drivers (Cisco IOS/IOS-XE/NX-OS, Arista EOS, Juniper JunOS)
are installed but not tested with netOrk and get none of its driver-specific
features. Capability matrix (audited against v0.28.0): see `src/pages/Drivers.tsx`.
Reboot from netOrk actually restarts only OpenWrt and Proxmox.

### Networking & Inventory
- Interface browser with IPv4/IPv6 addresses, MAC, speed, MTU
- LLDP neighbor discovery and topology graph, plus links derived from switch
  MAC tables (drawn dashed)
- Radio problems between the access points of a site are reported
- ARP table and DHCP lease browser per device
- Subnet browser with interface-to-subnet assignments
- VLAN list grouped by site; per-VLAN device membership view
- SSID management with push to OpenWRT APs via UCI
- Per-SSID MAC access control lists (whitelist / blacklist) pushed to every
  AP broadcasting the SSID, quick-add straight from the Connected Clients list
- MAC ACL state is a first-class drift item — covered by the same drift
  detection, scheduled auto-fix, and warning aggregation as any other config
  drift
- Dedicated Access Control Lists tab on the Wireless page listing every SSID
  with its ACL editor inline

### Configuration Management
- Config drift detection: desired state (DB) vs device state (poll snapshot)
- One-click drift fix stream with live SSH output in the browser
- UCI-based config push for OpenWRT (VLAN names, SSID settings, radio config)
- AP profile system: country code, HT/VHT mode, 802.11r, NTP, syslog, SSH port
- Configuration backup & versioning: every poll captures a config snapshot into
  a local Git repository, with full history and a side-by-side diff viewer
  between any two points in time
- One-click config restore for OPNsense from any prior snapshot
- Unauthorised configuration changes are surfaced as a device warning
- netOrk's own config pushes (drift fixes, ACL provisioning) are recognized
  and auto-accepted as the new baseline — never mistaken for an unauthorized
  change

### Configuration Automation (Ansible)
- Reusable Ansible roles and playbooks stored and edited directly in
  netOrk — no separate git checkout
- 16 built-in roles ready to assign: base, ubuntu, docker, adguard, zoraxy,
  portainer, watchtower, uptime-kuma, vaultwarden, stalwart, bulwark, searxng,
  postiz, listmonk, wireguard, fail2ban
- Roles state their resource needs; undersized hosts are refused with a reason
- Automatic dependency resolution — assigning `docker` pulls in `base`
  automatically, no manual role ordering
- Built-in roles can't be deleted but are fully editable; customizations
  survive upgrades, and only untouched files auto-heal on bugfixes
- `ansible-doc`-backed autocomplete while writing roles and playbooks
- Upload your own role as an archive
- Device-level role assignment with a dedicated Ansible tab on the device
  detail page
- Run history per device, snapshotting the exact role/playbook content
  that was executed
- Wired into VM provisioning: assign roles at VM-creation time and they
  run automatically after boot

### Scheduled Operations
- Scheduled reboots for OpenWRT APs with per-site concurrency lock
- Failback cron script written to device for netOrk-unreachable scenarios
- Scheduled config drift fixes with time-window enforcement
- Package update scheduling and one-click apply
- Wake-on-LAN via a firewall's driver (OPNsense today) — saved WOL targets
  with on-demand "Wake now" and recurring schedules; save a seen host as a
  target directly from the DHCP/ARP tabs

### Satellite Deployments
- Lightweight Docker agent deployed at a site netOrk can't reach directly —
  polls devices locally and syncs results back to Central over HTTPS
- Deployed in one flow via VM provisioning: pick a hypervisor and site,
  netOrk provisions the VM and installs the satellite container automatically
- Central automatically skips direct polling for any device at a site with
  an online, heartbeating satellite — no manual per-site toggling
- Scheduled/on-demand reboots and the SNMP auto-fix flow run through the
  same command channel whether a device is directly reachable or behind a
  satellite
- Discovery jobs at a satellite-covered site scan locally through the same
  command channel, instead of failing to reach the subnet from Central
- Not yet satellite-covered: SNMP health-metric polling still runs from
  Central, and WebSSH console access isn't available through a satellite

### Monitoring & Health
- SNMP health metrics (CPU, memory, interface counters) via `get_health_metrics()`
- Per-device warning system with severity levels (error / warning / info)
- One-click Ack on any warning — clears it immediately and writes an audit log
  entry; for config-change warnings the current state is accepted as the new
  baseline
- Docker container and image status (Linux, OpenMediaVault, QNAP)
- Service status and start/stop/restart (systemd)
- VM/container list with OS device cross-linking (Proxmox)
- Per-device availability windows — suppress OFFLINE status and poll-failure
  warnings during expected downtime (e.g. a nightly power-off); opt-in,
  unconfigured devices are unaffected
- OPNsense: BGP neighbor status polling and display, with a peer-down warning
- OPNsense: TLS certificate monitoring for the Trust store, with
  expiring-soon / expired warnings
- OPNsense: Dynamic DNS service-down warning (os-ddclient)
- Service checks about once a minute (DNS, NTP, VPN tunnels, core daemons,
  gateways), derived automatically; three failures before an alert; can run
  from satellites, including a DHCP check
- Site reachability: polling pauses behind a dead tunnel, one warning names
  it, everything is re-polled when it returns

### Dashboards
- Configurable, shareable dashboards — build your own from a widget picker
  instead of a fixed layout
- WYSIWYG grid-layout editor: drag, resize, and arrange widgets on a canvas
- 18 widget types: stats, device warnings, recently updated devices, network
  topology, EOL status, config drift summary, Wazuh security alerts, audit log
  activity, discovery jobs status, upcoming scheduled actions, DNS zones
  overview, site overview, config snapshot history, managed services,
  certificate expiry, outdated Docker images, firewall profile deployment
  status, service checks
- Multi-instance widgets with independent per-widget settings
- Share a dashboard with specific users; recipients can subscribe to the
  owner's live version or clone it into their own editable copy
- Favorite dashboards for quick access from the main menu; set any dashboard
  as your home view

### Notifications
- Signal messages for everything netOrk watches; each person registers their
  own number, administrators pair netOrk once via QR code
- One message per site outage, daily summary for recurring items, hourly
  bundling, quiet hours per number, mute per kind, full history with reasons

### DHCP
- DHCP reservations: import from the firewall, validated, diff, then apply
  (adds and updates only)
- DHCP subnets (Kea on OPNsense) with options and search domains; settings
  that break a network are refused

### Managed Services
- Every container-based service across devices with endpoints, TLS
  certificates and access rules
- Compose editor with masked secrets and automatic backup snapshot; redeploy
  is a separate confirmed step
- Zoraxy vhosts editable and written back; PostgreSQL databases listed

### Security Assessment
- Security tab per device: TLS/SSH grades A–F, installed software and
  container images matched against known vulnerabilities, hardening benchmarks
- Ratings adjusted to the device (local access, trusted network, not running,
  not booted kernel; raised when exploited in the wild)
- Kernel reboot recommendation with the vulnerabilities it would clear
- Exposure from firewall rules; internet-visible ports and abuse reports for
  own public addresses; on-demand hardening audit and web scan
- Vulnerability data from the netOrk Knowledge Base (licence required)

### Vulnerability Management
- Triage queue across all devices, one row per vulnerability, ordered by
  remediation deadline, exploitation, severity, likelihood, criticality, spread
- Decisions (not applicable / accept until / defer until / fixed) with a
  mandatory reason; accept and not-applicable need an elevated permission
- Deferred and accepted items return by themselves; ignored ones go overdue
- Daily reassessment verifies fixes and reopens regressions

### Security Integrations (plugins)
- **Wazuh** — agent enrollment tracking, vulnerability counts (by severity),
  recent alert history, CIS benchmark scores, one-click agent install fix stream
- **Graylog** — rsyslog forwarding status per device, one-click fix to write rule
- **CrowdSec** — org-level decisions, remediation metrics, top attack scenarios
- **EOL Tracking** — flags devices running end-of-life or soon-to-be-end-of-life
  firmware/OS via the endoflife.date API, checked daily

### DNS
- DNS zone management with authoritative device assignment
- Forward record provisioning (A records from device interfaces)
- PTR record provisioning to reverse zones
- Pending job queue for zone changes when device is unreachable

### RADIUS Management
- Global FreeRADIUS server, NAS client, and user management — no site
  scoping, usable from any site's SSIDs/APs
- Changes push to the device via the driver and are only stored after the
  device confirms — avoids drift between netOrk's view and the actual
  FreeRADIUS config
- Dedicated server list and detail page (NAS clients / users tabs) under
  the Wireless section
- SSID 802.1X integration (auto-provisioning a NAS client from an SSID's
  RADIUS server) is a deliberate follow-up, not included yet

### Access Control
- JWT authentication with remember-me (localStorage) or session-only (sessionStorage)
- Two-factor authentication (MFA/TOTP) — authenticator app at login, backup
  codes for emergencies, session invalidation on TOTP changes, enforceable
  per role
- RBAC with four built-in roles: viewer / operator / engineer / administrator
- Custom roles with any permission combination
- Full audit log of all orchestration actions, filterable by date range,
  user, action, or resource — export to CSV or PDF

### NetBox Sync
- Pushes vendor, model, OS version, status to NetBox dcim.devices
- Syncs interfaces, IP addresses, prefixes, VLANs
- VM interfaces and disks for Proxmox hosts

### Developer / Operator Experience
- OpenAPI / Swagger at `/docs`
- Plugin system: new integrations follow a documented pattern
- Celery task queue with dedicated queues per workload type
- Docker Compose deployment (single command)
- Alembic migrations run automatically on deploy

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## Architecture in One Paragraph

netOrk runs as a set of Docker containers: a FastAPI API server, three Celery
worker pools (general, poll, and Ansible), a Celery Beat scheduler, and an
nginx UI server. Redis is the broker. PostgreSQL stores all state. Device
communication is always blocking I/O executed in Celery workers — FastAPI
request handlers are async-only for DB and quick operations. Custom NAPALM
drivers live in `vendor/` as editable packages and self-register via
`@register_driver`. The plugin system (`netork/plugins/`) provides a hook bus,
a plugin registry with enable/disable state in the DB, and a documented
pattern for adding integrations. For sites Central can't reach directly, a
separate Satellite container polls devices locally and syncs results back
over HTTPS; Central dispatches actions (reboots, SNMP fixes) to it through a
generic command channel, transparently to the UI.