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# SAMURAI

**Network Monitoring & Security Platform.** A single pane of glass for multi-vendor
network and security infrastructure. SAMURAI continuously syncs configuration and
state from your devices, discovers endpoints, traces traffic paths, detects changes,
and scores compliance.

![Dashboard](/img/01-overview/dashboard.png)

## Supported platforms

| Category | Platforms |
| --- | --- |
| Cisco data center | ACI (APIC), Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator (NDO) |
| Cisco security | FMC, FTD/ASA, ISE |
| Firewalls | Palo Alto, Fortinet FortiGate |
| Virtualization | VMware vCenter |
| Identity | Microsoft Active Directory (LDAP) |
| Network | Routers & switches (IOS / IOS-XE / NX-OS / IOS-XR) via SSH |

## What you can do

- **Discover endpoints** across switches, routers, and controllers: MAC to IP to identity.
- **Trace traffic** hop by hop with policy, zone, and NAT awareness.
- **Detect changes** with a unified timeline and per-vendor change attribution.
- **Score compliance** against frameworks, per device and fleet-wide.
- **Visualize topology** of the network and data center fabric.

Continue to [Getting Started](/getting-started) to deploy and sign in.