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Download NAV

NAV is freely available under the GNU GPLv2 license.

Latest version

The latest stable version of NAV is 3.12.3.

Smoothest install

We recommend the Debian package. The package is currently the most comrehensive as it takes care of all dependencies. It also includes a short and well documented cook book of things you need to do after installation. Your procedure will be this;

  1. Install Debian
  2. aptitude install nav (first add a line to your sources.list, see the package doc).
  3. Follow the /usr/share/doc/nav/README.Debian cookbook
  4. Jump to step 2 in our Getting Started guide

Optional installs

In principle, NAV can run on any Unix-like platform, as long as Apache, Python and Java are supported.

Download the source code

Binary/distribution packages

Virtual appliance

NAV 3.8.3 has been packaged as a virtual appliance using VMWare/OVF. This can be used as a base for kick-starting a NAV service on a virtual infrastructure, or just for testing/evaluation purposes. See the navappliance page for more information or download the appliance directly.

Getting a development version

NAV has recently switched from Subversion to the decentralized Mercurial version control software. There exists several development branches, which can be found on the web here: http://nav.uninett.no/hg/ .

If your OS doesn't provide a prepackaged Mercurial client, you can download the client here: http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/Download . To clone (checkout) the default NAV branch using Mercurial:

hg clone http://nav.uninett.no/hg/default/ nav-default

This will create the directory nav-default/ containing the latest (hopefully stable) development version.

To later on update your cloned repository and working copy to the latest development version, go to the directory nav-default/, run:

hg pull
hg update

Note that to build the development version, the configure file must be generated by autoconf:

aclocal
autoconf

See DevVerToFreeBSD for a cookbook on how to install the development head on a FreeBSD machine (similar procedures for other OSes).

Contributions to NAV

  • UiT has made a windows machine name collector (collects netbios name). A table containing IP addresses and netbios names is maintained. Scheduled for NAV 3.6 contrib.
  • UiT has also made expansions to the NAV service monitor. This includes a radius monitor.
  • UiT has made the radius tool in NAV
  • UiT has reimplemented MailIn in Python
  • MailIn: Andreas Solberg, UNINETT, has made a third party solution that interprets incoming email from external systems and posts events on the NAV event queue.
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