ACNet

Network profiles and labels

A network profile is a name for one of your networks. It is not an SNMP credential.

Updated 5 October 2026

Create a profile

A profile has a name, symbol and colour, the address ranges you approve for scanning, an optional baseline, and its monitoring rules. Examples in the app are Home and Office.

  1. Open Network profiles and labels from the menu or from More.
  2. Create a profile and name it.
  3. Set approved ranges. Use current network fills the range from the connection you are on.
  4. Confirm the current connection with This network is … when you are on that network.

What the result means

A suggestion (same range, gateway, search domain or place) does not run anything. Confirmation ends when the network changes, and after 12 hours at the latest. ACNet does not read Wi-Fi names.

Network profileApproved rangesBaselineaccepted scan
Illustrative example. Not a map of a physical network and not a live capture.

Approved ranges and saved scans

Ranges are where checks are allowed: private IPv4 ranges, and IPv6 unique-local, link-local or on-link prefixes.

Only IPv4 addresses are scanned one by one: at most 4096 while the app is open, and 254 in the background, in total across all ranges. IPv6 ranges are never scanned address by address.

A single address is never widened to its whole network.

  1. Run a scan on Devices while you are on that network.
  2. Assign the saved scan to the profile when the app offers it.
  3. Accept a baseline: a saved scan, or the previous comparable scan. The first scan only proposes a baseline.

What the result means

Nothing is reported as new before a baseline exists. A partial scan is labelled and does not count as missing devices.

Labels, edit and delete

  1. Open a device and set your own label. It is shown instead of the reported name.
  2. The label is kept with the device identity, so it follows the device when the address changes.
  3. Edit or remove labels under Network profiles and labels.
  4. Archive a profile to keep history and rules but stop them. Delete removes the profile, its rules, baseline and changes. Saved sessions stay in Activity.

What the result means

A label never changes the device type, its evidence, or monitoring.

Not the same as SNMP

An SNMP profile is a separate item under Settings › SNMP profiles. It holds hosts, a port, a version and read-only credentials in the Keychain.

Monitoring rules never use SNMP or other credentials. A device scan uses an SNMP profile only when you choose it under Scan options, and only for that scan.