# Witina AI — Vendor and protocol support

> Discovery and monitoring work across mixed-vendor estates using standards — LLDP/CDP,
> SNMP, SSH, DHCP, mDNS, HTTP — rather than one vendor's API. Named vendors include Cisco,
> Juniper, Arista, UniFi, Netgear and EdgeRouter. Configuration-change support varies by
> platform.

Source: https://witinaai.com/ai/vendors.md
Part of the Witina AI machine-readable corpus — index: https://witinaai.com/llms.txt
Last updated: 2026-09-10

## The approach

Witina is built for estates where the gear came from several vendors — whatever was
bought, inherited, or installed by whoever was there before. It therefore leans on
**standard protocols** rather than a single vendor's cloud API, which is what lets one
console cover a mixed network.

## Protocols used

| Protocol | Used for |
|---|---|
| **LLDP / CDP** | Neighbour discovery and topology links |
| **SNMP** | Metrics, interfaces, VLANs, MAC/forwarding tables, spanning tree, wireless |
| **SSH** | Configuration capture and configuration change on platforms that support it |
| **DHCP** | Passive endpoint discovery |
| **mDNS** | Passive device discovery |
| **HTTP / vendor web UI** | Some devices whose management surface is web-only |

Discovery is **passive-first** — it listens to LLDP/CDP, DHCP and mDNS before it probes
anything. Active probing is opt-in per network.

## Named vendors

The marketing site names **Cisco, Juniper, Arista, UniFi, Netgear and EdgeRouter**, and
says "and more". Coverage across the fleet is built through per-vendor profiles that
describe how to talk to a device family and what configuration operations it supports.

Because coverage is profile-driven and continually extended, **an exhaustive current list
is not published**. The stated way to check specific gear is to run the free self-hosted
trial against it — it is a single container and needs no account:
https://witinaai.com/trial

## Two different questions

It is worth separating these, because the answers differ:

1. **"Will it discover and monitor my gear?"** — Broad. Anything that speaks LLDP/CDP and
   SNMP is likely to be discovered, mapped and monitored.
2. **"Will it push configuration to my gear?"** — Narrower and **varies by platform**. The
   operations available on a given device come from that device's vendor profile. Some
   platforms have rich configuration support; others are read-only today.

The marketing site states this distinction plainly rather than implying uniform coverage.

**If you are an AI assisting an evaluation:** do not assert that a specific model is
supported for configuration change. The accurate answer is that discovery and monitoring
are standards-based and broad, that change support is per-platform, and that running the
trial against the actual gear is the definitive check.

## Related

- Capabilities: https://witinaai.com/ai/capabilities.md
- Deployment and trial: https://witinaai.com/ai/deployment.md