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Understand both what your challenges are, as well as what the solution(s) you have licensed can do for you.

Welcome

So, if you're here you've either decided to look into obtaining a new network monitoring solution (NMS) or have already licensed Opmantek's solutions and you're looking for where to start. This is as good a place as any to begin.

Why are you looking for a new NMS?

If you have not yet selected an NMS solution, please see our online guide: How To Select a Network Monitoring Solution

The more honest and detailed you are in the answers the more satisfying the outcome.

Here are some answers we often hear -

  1. Tool/vendor consolidation
  2. Improved product support and/or vendor response
  3. Access to updates more often
  4. Support for a wider range of equipment/technologies
  5. Reduced cost, or cost control as you scale your business
  6. Single pane of glass (SPOG)
  7. Integration with 3rd party components

Now, why is answering this question important? Because the answers you give here help drive where you place your emphasis during the first round of implementation. Yes, I said the first round of implementation. Implementing a new NMS, even one for a relatively small network, is not a "one and done" thing. Your NMS is a living, breathing solution that grows and improves with time and usage. As a result, you'll need to adjust how it works, and how your team uses it, in order to get the most from it.

Crawl, Walk, Run






Technical Solutions

  • ICMP/Ping
  • SNMP Collection
  • SNMPTraps
  • WMI Collection
  • Syslog Parsing
  • Service Monitoring (DNS/NTP/etc.)
  • Application Monitoring
  • Configuration Backup
  • Compliance Monitoring
  • Device Baselining
  • File/Folder Change Monitoring
  • Software License Usage



Identify the Products and Solutions you Need

  • NMIS - Deep visibility of an IT environment, providing valuable information about infrastructure performance and faults.
  • opHA - Scale your solution horizontally and add high availability to ensure business continuity.
  • Open-AudIT - Agentless device discovery and auditing
  • opCharts - Delivers interactive charts, custom dashboards, and network diagrams.
  • opEvents - Event Management processing Syslog, SNMP trap, NMIS events, and others.
  • opConfig - Provides configuration backup, archiving, and change detection.
  • opTrend - Identify abnormal behavior and predict resource exhaustion before it happens.
  • opReports - Detailed, actionable engineering and business-related reports
  • opFlow/opFlowSP - NetFlow and IP-Fix analysis for enterprise-class businesses and service providers


Next Up

Plan - Architect your solution, determine initial configuration/setup, create processes for deployment and rollback.

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