Open Source Network Management

2nd Edition

A hands-on guide to building a modern network management platform using open source tools. From source of truth to full observability — on your own infrastructure, on your own terms.

The manuscript is complete — all 13 chapters and appendices are written and in final review. Launching soon.

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What You'll Build

ONSM Architecture — seven capability layers from Network to Visualization — By the end of this book, you'll have a running platform that tracks your network inventory, backs up and audits device configs, collects metrics and logs from your infrastructure, and serves it all through a single secured entry point — built entirely from open source tools.

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Who This Is For

Network engineers who want to stop managing infrastructure manually
Teams evaluating open source alternatives to commercial NMS platforms
Anyone who read the first edition and wants the updated stack with modern tooling

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About the Author

Josh VanDeraa is Services Director at Network to Code and author of multiple books on network automation and open source network management. He writes at josh-v.com.