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The exponentially growing needs for IT services in everyday teaching and researching processes at universities in the last few decades have put a high workload on IT engineers in this sector. The large number of devices and servers in a network can't be easily supervised by one person if the representation of their states and resources is not gathered in one place, e. g. on a single web site. In this paper a large computer network at one of the faculties of the University of Split will be described and the need for having an adequate tool for monitoring and supervision of network devices and servers, as well as active services on these servers will be elaborated. There are a lot of available applications that can be used and configured, but one of the main requirements was that the chosen software is free for use in academic and educational environments and, preferably, that it is an opensource software. The paper will describe the installation and configuration processes for all kinds of different network devices and servers with various operating systems, as well as settings used to secure the equipment from potential attacks from the Internet. The final appearance of the application dashboard and the advantages obtained will be presented and discussed. |
