What Infrality is
Infrality is a network map that stays true. An agent on the network sweeps it and draws what it finds on a board; the people who run the network document that board — what each machine is for, who owns it, how to recover it — and keep it current together.
It is built for the people who keep a network running: an in-house IT team, or a managed service provider looking after many clients’ networks.
The parts
Section titled “The parts”| Part | What it is | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Agent | infrality-agent, one binary for Linux, macOS and Windows. Sweeps a segment, identifies each host, streams the result. |
A machine inside your network |
| Dashboard | Where boards are drawn, edited, shared and commented, and where agents and the organization are administered. | app.infrality.io |
| API | What the dashboard and the agents talk to. Decides every question of access. | https://api.infrality.io |
| Website | Sign-in, registration, account settings, the installer downloads. | www.infrality.io |
What a board holds
Section titled “What a board holds”A board is one network, drawn. It holds:
- Devices — machines, appliances, services, cloud resources — each with its addresses, hardware address, manufacturer, operating system and whatever your team writes about it: a description, a runbook, an owner, recovery and support details, your own fields.
- Connections — cables and flows, and the relations between layers: a VM runs on a hypervisor, a firewall protects a subnet, a database replicates to another.
- Zones — the networks, sites and hosts that group them.
- Notes and documents written beside the diagram.
The same board reads as a diagram, an inventory, registers and a document. A scan adds to it; it never deletes what your team wrote.
Where to go next
Section titled “Where to go next”- New here: the quickstart gets one network onto a board.
- Deploying the agent: start at how the agent works.
- Setting up an organization for a team: organizations and members.