Network Infrastructure

DEC NIVMIA — Network Infrastructure & Vendor-agnostic Multi-platform Inventory & Analysis

Multi-vendor network orchestration: inventory, ACL & traffic management, migration, cost / capacity analytics, and AI-assisted operations across 16 platforms
What it is
A Linux-based network orchestration appliance that inventories every switch, router, firewall, and access point across 16 vendor platforms — captures their configurations into a git-tracked vault, detects drift, orchestrates ACL and traffic policy across the fleet, automates cross-vendor migrations, forecasts capacity, attributes cost and chargeback per device, and uses AI to audit configurations, plan operations, and explain changes in plain English.
Handles
Cisco IOS / IOS-XE / NX-OS, Arista EOS, Aruba AOS-S, Juniper JunOS, TRENDnet, TP-Link, MokerLink, D-Link, Netgear, Ubiquiti UniFi, FortiGate, Palo Alto PAN-OS, OPNsense, pfSense, Cisco SD-WAN, firewalld — via SSH, SNMP, telnet, and vendor API.
Does
Nightly device config capture; golden-copy tagging; drift detection; switch ACL and traffic orchestration; migration automation across vendor platforms; AI-assisted analyses; AI-assisted configuration audit, operations, and migration; AI-assisted plain-English change explanations; compliance and health reporting; VLAN / interface / route / security-rule inventory; cost optimization and chargeback per device; capacity forecasting; Prometheus + Grafana telemetry; 8 default alert rules.
Architecture
Core–subcore topology (deployable with or without agents). One NIVMIA core handles a single site or organization. Multiple NIVMIA appliances federate so a central core orchestrates many subcores across sites, regions, or tenants.
Deployment
Linux-based appliance. On-prem bare metal, on-prem VM, or cloud appliance VM. PostgreSQL-backed (26 tables, 33 views across 4 schemas). ECDSA-signed license gating.
Editions
Community (free) · Standard · Professional · Enterprise · Platinum · Signature. See edition comparison →
Designed for
Head of Network, NOC leads, MSPs managing 10–1000+ devices from multiple vendors.

Forty switches from six vendors. One dashboard. NIVMIA watches your entire network — every switch, router, firewall, and access point — and tells you what's happening, what changed, and what's about to break. In plain language your whole team can understand.

Customer reference — DEC-LLC: NIVMIA caught STP variance across a multi-vendor (Cisco / TP-Link / TRENDnet) switch fleet, planned the remediation, provided live troubleshooting support, and produced a quantitative cost-benefit analysis for the cross-site VPN upgrade. Read the full case study →
NIVMIA Appliance Status Dashboard

NIVMIA appliance status dashboard — system health, services, license, and plugin status at a glance.

Part of the Quorum
NIVMIA is the multi-vendor network specialist among four DEC-LLC domain products that share the SDNS data contract. Deployed standalone, it earns its keep across 16 vendor platforms. Deployed with its siblings, the AI Quorum lets the four specialist AIs reach decisions that cross domains — "can this workload move to the cheaper site without hitting a bandwidth ceiling?" is the kind of question NIVMIA answers together with IVMIA, VaultSync, and OpenUTM, not alone. How the Quorum works →

Your lead engineer just got promoted. Who trains the junior admin on your network?

Your best network person is now managing a team — or running the integration for the company you just acquired. They don't have time to explain why VLAN 47 exists, why there's an odd static route on the core switch, or why certain ports are in trunk mode. The junior admin needs to learn fast. The intern needs to contribute by next month. And the network doesn't slow down while people ramp up.

NIVMIA is the institutional memory of your network. It doesn't just monitor — it records why things are the way they are, tracks every change over time, and presents it so clearly that a new team member can walk in on Monday and understand the network by Tuesday. Your senior people stop being the bottleneck for basic questions.

Most network monitoring tools tell you what's happening right now. NIVMIA tells you what's happening, what changed since last week, why it was configured this way in the first place, and what's likely to need attention next month — so a new team member can come up to speed without blocking on the one person who remembers.

The intelligence that makes it different

Ask it questions

NIVMIA's built-in AI understands your network topology. Ask "which switches have firmware older than 6 months?" or "what changed on the TRENDnet switch last Tuesday?" and get an answer — not a log dump. It speaks your language because it's trained on your infrastructure.

Teaches new staff

A new network engineer can ask NIVMIA "why is this VLAN here?" and get context — when it was created, what it connects, which devices depend on it. The knowledge that used to live in one person's head now lives in the system, permanently.

Notices drift before it causes an outage

NIVMIA compares tonight's configuration to last night's — and to the "golden" known-good configuration. If something changed that shouldn't have, you hear about it before a user does. If nothing changed but performance degraded, it correlates across devices to find the root cause.

Vendor-neutral by design

Cisco, Juniper, Aruba, Arista, TP-Link, TRENDnet, D-Link, Netgear, Ubiquiti, Palo Alto, FortiGate, OPNsense, MokerLink, firewalld — 17 platforms, one consistent view. You don't need a different tool for each vendor. You need one tool that speaks all their languages.

Configuration vault with full history

Every device configuration is versioned — like a time machine for your network. Roll back to last Tuesday's config, diff between last month and today, tag a "golden" config as the known-good baseline. When something breaks, you know exactly what changed and when.

Compliance reporting built in

Need to prove your switches are hardened per company policy? NIVMIA checks firmware currency, error rates, spanning tree stability, port security, rogue DHCP servers, and health thresholds — automatically, nightly, with a report ready for the auditor.

What NIVMIA does, every night, without being asked

Once installed, NIVMIA runs on a schedule — collecting, comparing, alerting, and recording. No human required for the nightly work.

1

Inventory discovery

Finds every device on your network, identifies its vendor and model, records its firmware version, maps its interfaces, and catalogs its VLANs. If a new device appears or an existing one goes dark, you know immediately.

2

Health monitoring

CPU load, memory usage, temperature, uptime, interface error rates — collected per device, tracked over time. Thresholds are configurable: "alert me if any switch CPU exceeds 80% for more than 10 minutes."

3

Configuration backup + versioning

Every device's running configuration is backed up to a versioned vault. Changes are diffed automatically. A "golden" baseline can be tagged. Any drift from the golden config triggers an alert.

4

Trend analysis + forecasting

Interface utilization, error rates, and health metrics are tracked over weeks and months. NIVMIA spots trends — "this uplink is growing 12% per quarter, you'll saturate it by November" — before they become emergencies.

5

Fleet-wide reporting

Inventory reports, interface summaries, VLAN-to-device matrices, health overviews, collection audit trails. Export as table, JSON, or YAML. Every report is a query away, not a spreadsheet project.

6

Alerting + notification

Eight default alert rules ship out of the box — device unreachable, high CPU, high memory, high temperature, interface errors, interface down, link flap, bandwidth threshold. Alerts go to email, SMS, webhook, or your existing monitoring stack.

Who runs NIVMIA

The 50-person company with one IT generalist

You manage the network in addition to everything else.

You don't have time to log into every switch weekly. You need something that watches the network for you, tells you when something needs attention, and doesn't require a networking certification to understand. NIVMIA's community tier is free, monitors 7 vendor platforms, and sends alerts in plain English.

Result: Network problems surface before users report them. Free to start.
The MSP managing 30 customer networks

Every customer has different gear. You need one view across all of them.

Customer A runs Cisco. Customer B runs Ubiquiti. Customer C has a mix of TP-Link and D-Link they bought at different times. You don't want 30 different monitoring tools. NIVMIA's multi-site federation lets you manage them all from one central console, with per-customer isolation and per-customer reporting.

Result: One tool, 30 customers, 17 vendor platforms. Per-customer billing via MSP tier.
The enterprise with 500 switches and a compliance mandate

You need proof that your network is configured correctly. Every quarter.

Whether it's PCI-DSS for your payment infrastructure, SOX for your financial controls, or HIPAA for patient data — the auditor wants proof, not promises. NIVMIA generates compliance reports showing firmware currency, hardening status, configuration drift, and security posture — automatically. When the auditor arrives, you hand them a report. When something drifts between audits, you know the same day it happens. Financial institutions running trading networks across multiple locations use this to prove every switch meets policy, continuously — not just on the day someone checks.

Result: Compliance becomes continuous, not quarterly panic. The report writes itself.

Your network in 2030

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3x the devices, same team

IoT sensors, building automation, IP cameras, badge readers — your network will grow faster than your headcount. NIVMIA scales to thousands of devices without additional staff because the nightly work is automated.

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Encryption key rotation across the fleet

When quantum-safe encryption standards arrive, every device will need new credentials. NIVMIA's fleet management is designed for coordinated, cross-vendor key rotation — the kind of operation that breaks networks when done by hand.

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AI attackers probing your configs

Automated attack tools will probe for configuration weaknesses faster than humans can audit. NIVMIA's nightly drift detection and configuration vault create a continuous integrity check — catching changes that shouldn't have happened, even if the attacker was faster than your team.

See NIVMIA in real situations:

Scenario: M&A Network Integration → vs SolarWinds, PRTG, Auvik →

Start free. Scale when you're ready.

Community tier: 7 vendor platforms, 10 devices, full monitoring — free with registration. Enterprise platforms (Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto, FortiGate, Arista, Aruba, and more) available via monthly subscription.

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Your network shouldn't be a mystery to you. It's yours.

NIVMIA makes it legible, auditable, and teachable — so the knowledge lives in the system, not in someone's head.

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