3. EnSuite: an open source management platform based on Netconf

3.1 Software architecture

EnSuite (Extended Netconf Suite ) is a monitoring platform based on Netconf. It has been developed and tested for Linux, and is distributed freely under the LGPL license. EnSuite is developed using the LibreSource integrated collaborative development platform, which enables EnSuite source code to be synchronized between developers (as with CVS), and EnSuite documentation to be published via wiki pages, forums and a bug tracker.

EnSuite is developed in Python, a programming language with numerous libraries for interacting...