RE-ENGAGE is a desktop app for running NETGEAR M4250 AV switches in live production. Add your switches once — it signs into every one behind the scenes and gives you the dashboard, VLAN profiles, PoE and topology in one place.
This is a working mock of a RE-ENGAGE switch tile. Click ports to power them, paint a VLAN color onto them, or run a fake network scan. Nothing here touches real hardware — it just shows how the app feels.
What a click does to a port.
Sweeps the subnet for AV Line switches — including self-assigned 169.254.x.x.
Real captures from RE-ENGAGE running a rig of eight M4250 switches. Click any shot to enlarge.
Built for operators — fast to set up, hard to break during a show.
Type an IP, or hit Scan network and RE-ENGAGE finds every M4250 on your subnet — even factory-default switches on a self-assigned address.
Enter each switch's admin login one time. It's verified, then stored encrypted in macOS Keychain or Windows DPAPI. You're never asked again.
Watch every switch live, push VLANs and PoE, map the topology from LLDP, and get alerts the moment something drops.
Native desktop app for macOS and Windows. Runs entirely on your machine — no cloud, no account, no telemetry.
The NETGEAR AV Line — M4250 series (any port count, PoE or not). It talks to the AV UI / JSON API and the FASTPATH CLI over SSH, so it understands AV profiles, VLANs, PoE and multicast the way the switch does.
Only when you tell it to. Pre-provisioned switches can be marked protected so bulk actions skip them. Reads are always safe; writes (VLAN, PoE, DHCP) happen on your command and can auto-save to startup config so they survive reboots.
SSH must be on for VLAN / PoE / DHCP changes. If it isn't, RE-ENGAGE opens the switch's admin page and walks you through enabling it, then finishes automatically.
Encrypted by your operating system — macOS Keychain or Windows DPAPI. Nothing is sent anywhere; the app is fully offline.
Both. Native .dmg and .exe installers, built from the same codebase.