Desktop & Networking 2026 Own project
NetzAtlas
Desktop app for network documentation with automatic discovery — topology read live from the network instead of maintained by hand.
- .NET 9
- WPF
- WebView2
- SNMP/LLDP
- C#
Status & progress
In progress Duration: ongoing
Completed
- Data model & schema v1.0
- Device inventory (type, vendor, model, IP/MAC)
- Topology & rack visualization
- Interface status & signal path
- Multi-tenant per site
Open / next steps
- Wire live discovery into the shell
- Packaging & distribution
- Cross-platform (Avalonia)
Starting point
Network documentation in MSP operations is manual work: topology, racks and cabling are maintained by hand and are therefore almost always out of date. Across several GDAP-managed customer environments this quickly becomes unsustainable.
Solution
A desktop application that detects the network live via the network adapter and visualizes it — instead of guessing.
- Automatic discovery via SNMP (
LLDP-MIB/CDP,ifTable), the ARP table and a targeted ping sweep — the network graph builds itself edge by edge. - Visualization of topology, racks and cabling including signal-path analysis (BFS) in a WebView2 interface.
- Multi-tenant for MSP operations: a separate view per customer environment.
- No forced elevation in the MVP: SNMP, TCP-connect scan and reverse DNS work without admin rights and without packet capture.
Result
Up-to-date network documentation at the push of a button instead of diagrams that are stale the moment they are drawn. An in-house build, tailored to the operation it serves.
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