Version control for your network's configuration.
Vela backs up, compares and audits every change across your Cisco, MikroTik, FortiGate, HP-Aruba and Huawei devices — running inside your own infrastructure. No unmaintained script. No platform you only use a third of.
Not a script. Not a platform you'll never fully use.
A script maintained by whoever already left.
Fragile cron jobs, Ruby or Perl nobody else on the team reads, no visual diff and no alerting — it works until it doesn't, and nobody finds out.
A whole suite bought to use one module.
NetFlow, topology maps, IPAM — modules you'll never switch on, carrying the licensing and the learning curve of all of them anyway.
A product that's installed, supported and yours.
Focused on backup, diff and change control — with auditing and diagnostics built in. Nothing in the box you won't use.
Everything a network team checks on an ordinary day.
Nothing extra to install, no second terminal to open.
Scheduled backups
Replaces the brittle task scheduler: retries, a network check before every run, and automatic recovery of runs that were missed.
Side-by-side diff
Which line changed, who ran the backup, and when — without diffing files by hand.
Change alerts
Email digests and webhooks to Teams or Slack the moment a run finds a modification.
Golden config & drift
Define the standard per device group and catch automatically who has drifted from it.
Global search
Find a configuration line — an ACL, an address, an interface — across the entire inventory at once.
Network tools
Ping, traceroute, DNS, port test, SSH and SNMP — per-device diagnostics without leaving the panel.
From install to your first diff, in four steps.
Load your inventory
Import from CSV or XLSX, or add devices by hand, with each one's SSH credentials.
Schedule the backup
Set the frequency per group or site — Vela checks the network before running and retries on its own.
Compare every change
Each run is compared against the last one. The diff is waiting for you, without anyone asking for it.
Audit and alert
Who changed which device, who downloaded which file, and who needs to hear about it now.
Measured against what you already know.
| Oxidized / RANCID | SolarWinds NCM | Vela NetConfig | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Setup | Linux + Ruby, by hand | Full suite, weeks | Windows installer, minutes |
| Visual diff | No | Yes | Yes |
| Action audit trail | No | Separate module | Included |
| Diagnostic tools | No | Requires NPM separately | Included |
| Monitoring / NetFlow / IPAM | No | Yes — you pay for the bundle | Deliberately out of scope |
| Licensing | Free, unsupported | Annual, per device | Offline, no activation |
| Who maintains it | Your team, if someone knows Ruby | SolarWinds | Direct support |
Built to live on your network, not in someone else's cloud.
On-premise, always
Runs as a Windows service inside your own infrastructure. No mandatory outbound calls, none of your network's data on a third party's server.
Per-install credential encryption
Each device's SSH credentials are protected with a key unique to that installation — never shared between customers or machines.
Signed offline license
No activation server, no phoning home — the license is validated locally against a cryptographic signature.
Full audit trail
Every download, every device added or edited, every system setting changed — recorded with name, timestamp and detail.
Let's talk about your network.
A 30-minute walkthrough using your own inventory, or a trial installed inside your infrastructure. Tell us what you're running today and we'll come prepared.