Your work is saved automatically, in your own browser. Close the tab and you come back where you left off, down to the screen you were on. None of your configuration is stored on our server.
Projects
You can keep several projects side by side, one per customer or per site for example. In the project menu at the top you can:
- start a new project without losing the current one;
- switch between projects; the list is ordered by last change;
- rename, copy or delete a project.
Give a project no name and the tool calls it after the name of the site, otherwise after the device's system identity, and otherwise after the model. A copy is handy when you want to try a variant without touching the work you already have. Delete the last project and it is emptied rather than removed, so there is always something to work in.
Every tab holds on to the project it was opened with. That way you can have two projects open side by side without one writing into the other. Come back to a project that already holds work and the tool first asks whether you want to continue where you left off; say no and it starts a new project while the old one stays where it was.
Do keep in mind: this lives in the browser on this computer. Another computer, another profile or a private window will not see your projects, and clearing your browser data removes them. In a private window, or when storage is full, saving can fail silently. If you want to be sure of something, export it as a file.
Exporting and importing
To carry something over or show it to someone, you can take your work out of the browser:
- As a file — Export settings gives you a
.jsonwith your whole configuration, or your site as a whole. You open it again later with Import settings, or with Open a file you saved earlier on the first screen, on another computer too. The file knows whether it holds one device or a site and takes you to the right place. - As text — handy for pasting a Wi-Fi plan into a ticket or a forum post.
- As a link — your configuration is compressed and put in the part of the URL after the hash. That part is never sent to a web server, so nothing is stored with us. The flip side: whoever has the link has your configuration, passwords and keys included. Share it the way you would share a password.
An exported file holds passwords, Wi-Fi passphrases and private keys in plain text. It has to, because otherwise it could not produce the same script again in six months. Keep it with the customer records, not in e-mail or a shared folder. That warning is written inside the file as well.
One device or a whole site
A file for a single device holds that device with all its sections. A site file holds the whole site: the devices, the shared VLANs and SSIDs, the cabling, the locations, the tunnels and the Wi-Fi plan. That split is deliberate: whichever single device you happened to have open is not in a site file, because it is not part of the site and would only confuse the next person to open it. Open such a file and the tool takes you straight to the right view.
Which way is best?
- Carrying on shortly, same computer — do nothing, it is already there.
- Keeping it with the customer — export as a file and put it with the rest of the customer records. That lets you produce the same script again months later, or only the changes.
- Talking it over with a colleague — send the file, or use a link if you are sure the channel is good enough for passwords.
- Asking something on a forum — share a Wi-Fi plan as text or as a link: it holds no settings and no passwords.
What else you can download
Next to your project there are the files that come out of a configuration: the script as a .rsc file, the rollback script alongside it, the changes-only version after a comparison, the handover sheet to print or keep as a PDF, the converted v7 export after a v6 import, and for a SwOS switch the setup sheet and the push script. For a site you can download all the scripts at once.
What we do know
The tool runs entirely in your browser: what you type, passwords and keys included, is not sent to a server. We do measure with Google Analytics how the tool is used: which parts get switched on, which model is chosen, how often a network board or Wi-Fi plan is built. Those are counts about usage, not names, addresses, passwords, keys or settings. It is written down that way in the licence and privacy text.
Further reading: Using the script and The Wi-Fi plan.