The full Danbyte capability catalog.
Everything below ships in the free, open-source release — there is no enterprise tier and nothing is cloud-only. Organized by pillar: IPAM, DCIM, connectivity, platform, discovery and automation. When in doubt, the docs go deeper.
Address space you can see, plan, and trust.
Enter your prefixes once; Danbyte derives the rest. The containment tree, available space and utilization are computed from your data, per VRF — not hand-maintained.
Prefixes & derived tree
A live containment hierarchy per VRF, with parent/child, free space and utilization all computed from your prefixes.
Space map
A visual map of any prefix — what's free, what's used, and where loose IPs hide. Click a free block to carve a subnet.
VLANs & VLAN groups
Model VLANs and scope them with groups, then assign to sites, racks or interfaces.
VRFs & route targets
Full VRF support with import/export route targets and overlapping CIDRs keyed by (tenant, vrf, cidr).
IP ranges
First/last address ranges with utilization, for DHCP pools and reservations.
RIRs, aggregates & ASNs
Track allocations from RIRs down through aggregates, alongside AS numbers.
FHRP groups
First-hop redundancy groups (VRRP / HSRP / GLBP) with virtual IP tracking.
Service templates
Reusable service definitions (ports and protocols) applied to devices and IPs.
Gateway autospawn
Designate a gateway once and have it created and kept in sync automatically.
Search & MAC tracking
Global search across objects; follow a MAC address to its interface and IPs.
User-defined statuses & roles
Define your own statuses and prefix/VLAN roles to match your operational language.
Your racks and gear, drawn as real hardware.
Model the physical layer at true scale: millimetre-accurate rack elevations, device faceplates that light up with live link state, and a full power model.
Device catalog
A library of device types with images, ports and template components you instantiate per install.
Link-state faceplates
Front and rear faceplates that color ports by link state, drawn at physical scale with live SNMP dots.
Drag-drop faceplate builder
Lay out custom faceplates by dragging ports into place.
Racks — Names / Images / Render
mm-accurate rack elevations from 10" to 23", in three view modes, exportable to PNG.
Interfaces & virtual/aggregate interfaces
Physical, virtual, LAG and bridge interfaces with speeds and roles.
Virtual chassis
Stack members into a virtual chassis with {position}-aware naming.
IP assignment
Bind IP addresses to interfaces; primary IPs roll up to the device.
Power model
Panels → feeds → ports → outlets, with supply/demand and weight rollups.
Object numbers & cable labels
Deterministic object numbers and printable cable labels.
Trace any run end to end — through panels, PDUs, and fibre.
Cabling is modelled as real infrastructure. Trace a circuit through patch panels and PDUs, follow fibre to the individual strand, and see it all on a live topology canvas and floor plan.
End-to-end cable tracing
Trace a run through patch panels and PDUs, from device port to far-end port.
Fibre strands (TIA-598-C)
Model fibre to the individual strand, TIA-598-C colour-coded and traceable end to end.
LC-duplex & MPO
First-class connector types including LC-duplex and MPO trunks.
Topology canvas
A live, port-accurate diagram built from real cabling, with role tiers, LLDP ghosts and saved views.
Floor plans
Spatial tiles showing utilization, monitoring status and camera fields of view.
Cable trays → pull sheet
Route cable through trays and export a contractor pull sheet.
Circuits & providers
Track carrier circuits and providers alongside your own infrastructure.
VPN tunnels & IPSec profiles
Model VPN tunnels with reusable IPSec profiles.
Wireless SSIDs
Wireless SSIDs bridged to the VLANs that carry them.
Governance that stands up to an audit.
Access control, change history and compliance are built in, not bolted on. Every change is logged with a readable diff, and access is grant-based down to the row.
Tenant + VRF isolation
Hard in-app isolation by Tenant and VRF for shared infrastructure.
Grant-based RBAC
Access control with row constraints and site scoping, granted rather than assumed.
One-click site roles
Editor and viewer roles scoped to a Site, applied in one click.
MFA + LDAP / AD
Multi-factor authentication plus LDAP / Active Directory login.
Automatic change log & History
Every create, edit and delete logged automatically with a field-by-field diff.
Journals
Timestamped operator notes attached to any object.
Compliance rules
Declarative rules with severity that flag records out of policy.
Custom fields & groups
Custom fields on any object — including live object references — organized into groups.
Tags
Free-form tags across every object type.
Public share links
Share a read-only view of an object via a public link.
Customizable dashboard
Compose your own dashboard from widgets.
Import / export
Round-trip CSV, XLSX and JSON.
Contacts, regions & locations
Organizational hierarchy: regions, sites, locations and contacts.
Watch what's up. Discover what's really there.
Danbyte keeps your source of truth honest. Active checks tell you what's up; SNMP and nmap read reality into a separate observed layer you reconcile on your terms.
Eight check types
Ping, TCP, HTTP and more — eight built-in check types.
Prefix inheritance
Checks inherit down the prefix tree, so monitoring follows your address plan.
Alert channels
Route alerts to Slack, Teams, Discord, PagerDuty and email.
SNMP observed-vs-intended
SNMP reads reality into a read-only observed layer beside your intended source of truth.
Drift inbox
Accept observed drift into your source of truth one item at a time.
nmap sweep
Sweep a prefix with nmap to discover what's really there.
Silences & channels
Silence noisy checks and manage notification channels.
Air-gapped capable
Runs fully offline; no external calls required.
The source of truth your automation already speaks.
Danbyte is a native Ansible and Terraform inventory source, renders config with Jinja, detects drift, and pushes signed events — so your pipelines read straight from the source of truth.
Ansible dynamic inventory
Danbyte is a native Ansible dynamic inventory source.
Config contexts
Layered, mergeable config data resolved per device.
Export templates (Jinja)
Render device config or any artifact with Jinja export templates.
Config-drift runner
Native Ansible / Terraform inventory plus a diff of intended vs deployed.
Deploy runs
Trigger deploy runs; retry and remediate from the UI.
CF-driven playbook flags
Custom fields drive which playbooks apply to which devices.
Signed webhooks
Outbound webhooks signed with HMAC-SHA512.
Jobs queue
Background jobs on Redis + RQ with a visible queue.
Scoped API tokens
A REST API secured by scoped tokens.
Plugin hooks
A plugin-friendly codebase with hooks to extend the model.
Every feature, in the open-source release.
Self-host it free, or let us run a private instance for you — the feature set is identical either way.