Pawikan Network Monitor

Welcome to Pawikan!

Pawikan is an open-source highly scalable network management system for small, medium, and large-scale networks. It uses the powerful open-source tools such as Cricket, RRD, Postgresql, Object Oriented Perl together with powerful new features such as network discovery, automatic collector configuration, automatic network topology mapping, and other cool add-on graphical user interfaces(GUIs) that will surely ease up network management. NetCartographer is the official Java GUI of Pawikan which features a client window application which helps network administrators visualize the Pawikan databases such as network topology, traffic graphs and interactive network weathermap among others. Another Java tool is called "NetBrowser" which can easily map the network topology of your network and allows you to browse (i.e., expand/collapse/zoom) the nodes, links and see the interconnections of your complex network from routers' interfaces to servers' open ports. Of course, Pawikan also has a basic web GUI for viewing cricket graphs. Pawikan addresses many issues involved in managing large and expanding networks. Imagine you are managing a network consisting of at least 50 routers. With Pawikan, you can run network discovery for three hours and after that, you can run a couple of collector configuration scripts for only 30 seconds and you now have a fresh and accurate config files running on a Pawikan server with a visualization of how your network looks like using the Pawikan's Java GUIs. Unlike in MRTG which takes days to manually update a config file, you no longer have to write your configuration files for each monitoring targets. Pawikan discovers your network and configures the network targets and even stores all traffic data in a long-term database for billing and network analysis in the future. These features aims to ease up the network management of large networks.