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Network Administration Visualized list of authors

This file tries to list everyone that has contributed to NAV, in the form of code, documentation or packaging.

Currently active contributors/maintainers

  • John-Magne Bredal <john.m.bredal at uninett.no> Joined in 2000, and is instrumental in anything related to end user detentions (Arnold), the web interface and the API.
  • Morten Brekkevold (formerly Vold) <morten.brekkevold at uninett.no> Joined in 2002 to make NAV useable outside of NTNU. Has been hacking and improving bits and pieces of NAV ever since. The project's opinionated know-it-all, working as the current project lead, after taking over for Vidar Faltinsen.

Other contributors and previous maintainers

  • Vidar Faltinsen <vidar.faltinsen at uninett.no> Founded the project in 1999. He doesn't code, but he knows his way around a network, and has been a NAV mentor for all these years - producing documentation and offering keen insight into the problem domain.
  • Emil Henry Flakk <emilhf at stud.ntnu.no> Wrote the IPAM tool introduced in NAV 4.6.
  • Pär Stolpe <par at stolpe.se> Contributed more flexible LDAP authentication for Microsoft AD servers.
  • Christian Strand Young <christian at strandyoung.com> Joined in the summer of 2011. His main contributions are implementing IPv6 support in pping and asynchronous DNS lookups in ipdevinfo & the Machine Tracker, as well as fixing various bugs.
  • Christine Anne Sætre <christine.satre at ntnu.no> Interaction designer, hired as a consultant from NTNU to give feedback on UX during the NAV 4.0 interface redesign process.
  • Morten Werner Forsbring <werner at debian.org> Packaging NAV for Debian 2004-2013.
  • Roy Sindre Norangshol <norangshol at uninett.no> Rewrote Netmap from a Java applet to a JavaScript implementation based on D3.js. Wrote the tools scripts for building NAV virtual machines based on Vagrant, and contributed to improve our automated JavaScript testing.
  • Eivind Lysne <eivindlysne at gmail.com> Rewrote the remaining Cheetah templates to Django templates during the summer of 2013. Also contributed to the design changes scheduled for NAV 4.0.
  • Trond Kandal <trond.kandal at ntnu.no> Wrote PortAdmin with John-Magne.
  • Ole Martin Bjørndalen <ole.martin.bjorndalen at uit.no> Wrote the MailIn system based on a Perl implementation from UNINETT, and periodically contributes to the service monitor.
  • Kai Arne Bjørnenak <kai.bjornenak at cc.uit.no> Write radius accounting logger.
  • Magnus Motzfeldt Eide <magnus.eide at uninett.no> Active 2008-2012. Rewrote the old PHP-based Alert Profiles interface in Python/Django. General code maintenance and rewrites of mod_python based systems to Django, and was also involved in the early development of ipdevpoll.
  • Marius Halden <marius.halden at gmail.com>
  • Matej Gregr <igregr at fit.vutbr.cz>
  • Fredrik Skolmli <fredrik.skolmli at uninett.no> Active 2010. Contributed bugfixes and started the threshold configuration UI.
  • Thomas Adamcik <thomas.adamcik at uninett.no> Active 2008-2010. Rewrote the Perl-based Alert Engine in Python. Also rewrote the user admin panel to a Django-based solution, and contributed much to enable continuous integration using Hudson.
  • Jørgen Abrahamsen <jorgen.abrahamsen at uninett.no> Active 2008-2010. Bugfixes and features to various parts of NAV, such as report, smsd and ipdevinfo.
  • Kristian Klette <kristian.klette at uninett.no> Active 2007-2010. Wrote Netmap and the rewritten Network Explorer.
  • Øystein Skartsæterhagen <oysteini at pvv.ntnu.no>, 2009 Wrote Geomap, the OpenStreetMap-based traffic map.
  • Roger Kristiansen
  • Stein Magnus Jodal <stein.magnus.jodal at uninett.no>, 2006-2008 Rewrote the SMS daemon from Perl to Python for NAV 3.2. During the next couple of series releases, he cleaned up the entire web interface, defined new policies for how to code web interfaces in NAV, and rewrote several web tools. Introduced Django to NAV 3.5, using it to rewrite the creaky IP Device Browser to the IP Device Info tool.
  • Erlend Midttun <erlend.midttun at ntnu.no>
  • Jostein Gogstad <jostein.gogstad at idi.ntnu.no> 2007, implemented support for collecting IPv6 prefixes and neighboring caches, and matrix display of IPv6 subnets.
  • Kristian Eide <kreide at gmail.com> Active 2000-2005. Wrote the first Traffic Map applet. Instrumental in the redesign of NAV for version 3, for which he wrote the getDeviceData SNMP collection engine, the camlogger, the event engine, the topology discovery mechanisms and the network explorer and l2trace web tools.
  • Gro-Anita Vindheim <gro-anita.vindheim at ntnu.no> Active 1999-2001 and 2003-2005. Wrote live.pl, the original pinger, and several other parts of NAV 2. Maintenance on SQL reports, NAV v2->v3 migration helper scripts.
  • Magnar Sveen, 2003-2004 Designed the new web interface for NAV 3 and wrote much of the surrounding toolbox and user preferences code.
  • Hans Jørgen Hoel, 2003-2004 Wrote the SeedDB (formerly EditDB) and the original Device Management web tools. Partly involved in event engine's handling of device lifecycle events.
  • Arne Øslebø <arne.oslebo at uninett.no> Active 2002-2004. Wrote the first Alert Engine in Perl.
  • Andreas Åkre Solberg <andreas.solberg at uninett.no> Active 2002-2004. Wrote the first Alert Profiles web interface in PHP, and parts of the first Alert Engine.

This dynamic duo wrote most of NAV's service monitor and parallel pinger:

  • Stian Søiland, 2002-2004
  • Magnus Thanem Nordseth, 2002-2004
  • Sigurd Gartmann, 2001-2004 Wrote the SNMP collector for NAV 2, the report system and the syslog analyzer.
  • Arve Vanvik, 2004 Oracle plugin for the service monitor.
  • Erlend Mjåvatten, 2003 Wrote the original rrd browser and supporting libraries.
  • Bjørn Ove Grøtan, 2003 Wrote the original message&maintenance (emotd) web tool, and contributed initial code for LDAP authentication.
  • Daniel Sandvold, 2002
  • Erik Gorset, 2002 Wrote parts of the service monitor and parallel pinger.
  • Knut-Helge Vindheim <knut-helge.vindheim at ntnu.no>, 1999-2002 Maintenance on various NAV 2 parts: The SMS daemon, SNMP collection scripts, database backup system. For the most part, Knut-Helge has contributed invaluable insights into the operation of a large campus network.
  • Trygve Lunheim, 1999-2000 The original introduction of MRTG/Cricket integration.
  • Stig Venås, 1999 Wrote the original arp cache collector (arplogger.pl), which remained mostly unchanged in NAV for 9 years.

These guys were apparently involved in projects that were precursors to NAV (such as the first attempt at building a topology graph):

  • Eric Sandnes, 1999
  • Tor-Arne Kvaløy, 1999