NETworkManager

A powerful open source tool for managing networks and troubleshooting network problems!

Connect and manage remote systems with Remote Desktop, PowerShell, PuTTY, TigerVNC or AWS (Systems Manager) Session Manager. Analyze and troubleshoot your network and systems with features such as the WiFi Analyzer, IP Scanner, Port Scanner, Ping Monitor, Traceroute, DNS lookup or LLDP/CDP capture (and many more) in a unfied interface. Hosts (or networks) can be saved in (encrypted) profiles and used across all features.

Download • Changelog • Documentation • Contributing • Build • License

📦 Download

Pre-built and signed binaries (setup, portable and archive) are available on the download page with install instructions (e.g. silent install). The files are provided via GitHub releases.

In addition, NETworkManager is also available through the following package managers

• Chocolatey

  # Install via Chocolatey
  choco install networkmanager

• WinGet

  # Install via WinGet
  winget install BornToBeRoot.NETworkManager

• Evergreen

  # Get release via Evergreen
  Get-EvergreenApp -Name NETworkManager
  
  # Get release via Evergreen and save the setup file to disk
  Get-EvergreenApp -Name NETworkManager | Save-EvergreenApp -Path C:\Users\$env:Username\Downloads\

  Evergreen PowerShell module: https://github.com/aaronparker/evergreen

📃 Changelog

You can find the changelog for each version of NETworkManager here.

📖 Documentation

The documentation is provided with Docusaurus via GitHub pages and can be found here.

✨ Contributing

Want to contribute to NETworkManager? Here are a few information on how to get started:

• Request a feature, report a bug or ask a question
• Add a feature or fix a bug
• Add or improve a translation
• Improve the documentation
• Report a security vulnerability

A list of all contributors can be found here.

This project has adopted the code of conduct defined by the Contributor Covenant.

🔧 Build

You can build the application like any other .NET / WPF application on Windows.

1. Make sure that the following requirements are installed:

   • .NET 8.x - SDK
   • Visual Studio 2022 with .NET desktop development and Universal Windows Platform development

2. Clone the repository with all submodules:

   # Clone the repository
   git clone https://github.com/BornToBeRoot/NETworkManager
   
   # Navigate to the repository
   cd NETworkManager
   
   # Clone the submodules
   git submodule update --init

3. Open the project file .\Source\NETworkManager.sln with Visual Studio or JetBrains Rider to build (or debug) the solution.

   ALTERNATIVE

   With the following commands you can directly build the binaries from the command line:

   dotnet restore .\Source\NETworkManager.sln
   
   dotnet build .\Source\NETworkManager.sln --configuration Release --no-restore

🙏 Thanks

Thanks to everyone helping to improve NETworkManager by contributing code, translations, bug reports, feature requests, documentation, and more.

We would like to thank the following people and companies for their support of this open source project:

AppVeyor	CI/CD service for Windows, Linux and macOS
GitHub Pages	Websites for you and your projects
ip-api.com	IP Geolocation API (free for non-commercial use)
JetBrains	Providing a license for JetBrains Rider and other tools
SignPath Foundation	Free code signing certificates for open source projects
SignPath.io	Free code signing service for open source projects
Transifex	Localization platform

NETworkManager uses the following projects and libraries. Please consider supporting them as well (e.g., by starring their repositories):

#SNMP Library	SNMP library for .NET
AirspaceFixer	AirspacePanel fixes all Airspace issues with WPF-hosted Winforms.
ControlzEx	Shared Controlz for WPF and more
DnsClient.NET	Powerful, high-performance open-source library for DNS lookups
Docusaurus	Easy to maintain open source documentation websites.
Dragablz	Tearable TabControl for WPF
GongSolutions.Wpf.DragDrop	An easy to use drag'n'drop framework for WPF
IPNetwork	.NET library for complex network, IP, and subnet calculations
LoadingIndicators.WPF	A collection of loading indicators for WPF
MahApps.Metro.IconPacks	Awesome icon packs for WPF and UWP in one library
MahApps.Metro	UI toolkit for WPF applications
NetBeauty2	Move .NET app runtime components and dependencies into a sub-directory
PSDiscoveryProtocol	PowerShell module for LLDP/CDP discovery

Code Signing Policy

NETworkManager uses free code signing provided by SignPath.io and a free code signing certificate from SignPath Foundation.

The binaries and installer are built on AppVeyor directly from the GitHub repository. Build artifacts are automatically sent to SignPath.io via webhook, where they are signed after manual approval by the maintainer. The signed binaries are then uploaded to the GitHub releases page.

Privacy Policy

This program will not transfer any information to other networked systems unless specifically requested by the user or the person installing or operating it.

NETworkManager has integrated the following services for additional functions, which can be enabled or disabled at the first start (in the welcome dialog) or at any time in the settings:

• api.github.com (Check for program updates)
• ipify.org (Retrieve the public IP address used by the client)
• ip-api.com (Retrieve network information such as geo location, ISP, DNS resolver used, etc. used by the client)

📝 License

NETworkManager is published under the GNU General Public License v3.

The licenses of the libraries used can be found here.