Product tour

See Lantern at work.

Ninety seconds through the live map, a loop traced to its port, inventory, health, reports and sign-in. Every frame is the real product running against its built-in simulated network.

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  1. Sign in with your directory, a cloud identity provider or a local account.
  2. The dashboard leads with what needs attention.
  3. A live map of every switch, firewall and access point: Cisco, Aruba, Juniper, Fortinet and UniFi on one map, read over SNMP.
  4. Click a device for its ports, PoE budget, VLANs and live values.
  5. Trace a VLAN through the network. Its carried links light up; faulty links keep their warning colours.
  6. Colour devices by vendor, and links by speed, cable type or load.
  7. When a loop starts, Lantern finds it from agreeing signals (MAC flapping, broadcast storms, a switch hearing its own LLDP), never a single MAC move, and traces it to the port where it most likely starts.
  8. Unmanaged switches hiding behind a port show up too.
  9. Step back in time and see exactly what changed.
  10. Inventory of devices, endpoints and optics, with CSV export.
  11. Best-practice checks score every site, with the reasons.
  12. Lifecycle and capacity reports, ready to print. Lifecycle dates in this preview come from a sample catalogue.
  13. Connect Active Directory and cloud sign-in in Settings, with roles from your groups.

The map

Every switch, firewall and access point, and how they connect.

Links show their speed, media and the VLANs they carry. Healthy devices stay quiet; problems get an outline and a count. Choose the scope, highlight one VLAN, or colour links by speed, cable or load. The map keeps fitting itself until you move it, then never jumps on a poll.

How to read the map

The Lantern map: a firewall, a core switch stack, access switches and access points, with the issues panel on the right. VLAN 20 highlighted: the links that carry it are lit amber. Links coloured by negotiated speed, each labelled.

Loops and hidden switches

Find the loop, and the port it started on.

A loop is declared only when several signals agree: MAC addresses flapping, broadcast storms, a switch hearing its own LLDP. Lantern traces it to the likely origin, explains the evidence, and says what to do. It also finds desk switches and hubs hiding behind access ports, with the devices behind them.

How detection works

A loop incident: likely origin ports on NW-ACC-FL2 with the evidence and what to do. The map during a loop: a red banner, flooded links and origin tags. An inferred unmanaged switch and the devices behind it.

Device details

Ports, PoE and live values, one click away.

Select any device for its identity, problems, a front panel coloured by status, PoE, VLAN or speed, every port with its neighbour or endpoints, the PoE budget, and live SNMP values you can turn into monitors. Open a recorded SSH session from the same panel.

Device details

A switch selected on the map, with its status, problems and identity. The Ports tab of a switch. The PoE tab: budget and per-port draw.

Inventory and reports

Know what you have, and what needs replacing.

Devices, endpoints and optics in tables you can sort, filter, trim and export. Reports put lifecycle, a replacement forecast and closet capacity in one document, ready to print. In this preview, lifecycle dates come from a sample catalogue and are labelled as such.

Inventory · Reports

The device inventory table. Endpoints and where each is connected. The lifecycle and capacity report.

Health and monitoring

Best practice scored, values watched.

Fourteen built-in checks score each site, from loop protection on access ports to trunks that match on both ends, with the reasons. Turn any SNMP value into a monitor with confirmed status changes, maintenance windows, and notifications by email or webhook.

Health · Monitoring

Health: issues by severity and the best-practice score. Creating a monitor with warning and critical conditions. The dashboard.

Sign-in and roles

Your directory, your identity provider, your rules.

Sign in with Active Directory or any LDAP directory, Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace, Okta or any OpenID Connect provider. Groups become Viewer, Operator or Administrator roles. Test a connection or try a sign-in before you turn it on, and see every sign-in in the activity log.

Set up sign-in

LDAP settings with a successful connection test and the person's role. The Lantern sign-in page with directory and single sign-on options. Users and sign-in activity.

More screens

  • History: a past snapshot compared with an earlier one.History and compare
  • Devices coloured by vendor.Devices by vendor
  • The Everything scope with endpoint groups.Everything, endpoints included
  • Search results for a device name.Search: Ctrl K
  • The monitor list.Monitors
  • The Changes page.Changes and sessions
  • Microsoft Entra ID sign-in settings.Microsoft Entra ID
  • Polled devices and their SNMP status.Collection status
  • The dashboard in the light theme.Light theme

Screens show Lantern's built-in simulated network, Northwind Logistics, and test accounts. Device names, addresses and people are fictional.