## About NAV

### What is NAV?

Network Administration Visualized is an advanced software suite to monitor large computer networks. It automatically discovers network topology, monitors network load and outages, and can send alerts on network events by e-mail and SMS, allowing for flexible configuration of alert profiles.

NAV was developed at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Development started in 1999. It originated as a collection of scripts used internally at NTNU's ITEA Network group. In 2001 UNINETT became interested in its development, and has since been funding NAV development at NTNU on behalf of all universities and colleges in Norway. In 2006 the development of NAV was moved from NTNU to UNINETT.

NAV is free, available under the GNU GPLv2 license.

### Project participants

Current participants emphasized.

- Vidar Faltinsen (project leader, 1999-2003, 2006-), 1999-
- Trygve Lunheim, 1999-2000
- Tor-Arne Kvaløy, 1999
- Eric Sandnes, 1999
- Stig Venås, 1999
- Gro-Anita Vindheim, 1999-2001, 2003-2005
- Knut-Helge Vindheim, 1999-2002
- John Magne Bredal, 2000-
- Kristian Eide, 2000-2005
- Sigurd Gartmann, 2001-2004
- Erik Gorset, 2002
- Steinar Hamre, 2002
- Magnus Thanem Nordseth, 2002-2004
- Daniel Sandvold, 2002
- Andreas Åkre Solberg, 2002-2004
- Stian Søiland, 2002-2004
- Morten Brekkevold (formerly Vold, project leader, 2004-2005), 2002-
- Arne Øslebø, 2002-2004
- Bjørn Ove Grøtan, 2003
- Hans Jørgen Hoel, 2003-2004
- Erlend Mjåvatten, 2003
- Magnar Sveen, 2003-2004
- Stein Magnus Jodal, 2006-

### More information

For more information about NAV, go to the following addresses:

- MetaNAV — our project wiki
- SourceForge — our SF.net project site with trackers for bugs and feature requests, and NAV downloads

### Show us your appreciation!

NAV is free - no strings attached - apart from these two;

1. If you are using NAV please add yourself to this list.
2. If NAV makes you happy - make us happy! Send us a postcard, preferably with a picture from your location / city. No electronic postcards - use snail mail - send the postcard to:

    	The NAV Project Team
    	Att: Morten Brekkevold / Vidar Faltinsen
    	UNINETT AS
    	NO-7465 Trondheim
    	Norway

...and we will decorate our wall :)

That's all folks - keep using NAV - keep sending us bug reports and feature requests!