Why Network Monitor

Ten reasons why administrators love OpManager

1. Start monitoring your network within minutes of installation

• Point-and-click install and setup eliminates the need to hire a product expert or a paid consultant to do the job.
• OpManager installs on standard operating hardware and supports multiple operating systems.
• No agent installation hassles: OpManager provides 100% agent-less monitoring.
• Wizards and Templates-based configuration to quickly apply your corporate monitoring policy.
• Reliable discovery and monitoring using industry-standard protocols such as SNMP, Telnet, SSH, and WMI.

2. Visualize your network based on type or logical groups

• Network maps, category-wise D provide quick visibility into a network or device level outage.
• Visualize your WAN resources across locations using the Business Views and you can restrict user access to select Business Views.
• Flexibility to define more infrastructure maps for new device types, e.g. Environment Sensors, IP Phones etc
• CCTV views enable rotational display of the dashboards that you want to see.

3. One-point configuration using Device and Interface Templates

• Multi-vendor support with over 11,000 device templates out-of-the-box. You can add your own templates as well.
• Share new templates with the OpManager Users Community.
• Interface templates for all types of interfaces, facilitating one-point configuration.
• Templates for process monitoring, file monitoring and folder monitoring.
• Quick Configuration Wizard to apply a configuration on multiple devices in one go.

4. Monitor network performance, server performance and application performance

• OpManager leverages industry standard protocols for monitoring such as SNMP, WMI, CLI, NetFlow, sFlow, IP SLA, etc.,
• Monitor WAN RTT (Round Trip Time) to spot WAN latency with hop graphs showing the exact point of delay.
• Quickly find out if it is the network, server, or the application that is eating up the bandwidth.
• Monitor CPU, Memory, and Disk usage on mission critical servers and see which applications/processes are using the most resources. This helps you decide on the hardware upgrade.
• Monitor the health and performance of servers, switches, UPS and other infrastructure.

5. Quickly resolve network faults by getting to the root of the problem

• Set performance thresholds for proactive monitoring; avert potential downtime.
• Receive alerts as email, SMS, Tweets, and access over your SmartPhone GUI.
• Provision to execute self-healing scripts to resolve faults automatically and suppress unwanted alerts.
• Over 90 powerful widgets and customizable dashboards for easy management.
• Consolidates alerts from SNMP Traps, Windows Event Logs, and Syslogs as well.
• Downtime scheduler to suspend monitoring and alerting during network maintenance.

6. Tools to troubleshoot on the fly

• Real-time instant reports on the performance of resources on a device for quick troubleshooting..
• MIB Browser lets you find out if the device has SNMP and does an SNMP walk to check if a resource responds.
• Access devices from OpManager over Telnet, SSH or RDP and quickly troubleshoot a fault.
• Ping/Traceroute to a device lets you check the device availability and response time.
• Switch Port Mapper lets you check the connectivity between a switch and other devices in a network

7. Power-packed add-ons and plug-ins for specific network and IT infrastructure monitoring needs

• WAN RTT monitoring pack to using Cisco IP SLA technology to troubleshoot WAN link latency even at the ISP end.
• VoIP monitoring add-on again leveraging Cisco IP SLA to troubleshoot poor VoIP quality and VoIP QoS reports.
• Netflow add-on to identify the top talkers and in-depth traffic analysis.
• NCM add-on for comprehensive, integrated network configuration management.
• Add-ons to manage IP addresses and switch ports, and to monitor firewalls, WLCs, URLs, and storage systems.

8. Advanced reporting with provision to schedule and automatically email or publish the reports

• Top 10 reports shows the top 10 poorly performing resources at one glance.
• Detailed reports on resource utilization trends and forecast, and capacity planning, help you make informed storage decisions.
• Exclusive reports on the health and availability of WAN, VoIP, WLCs, Meraki devices, load balancers, storage systems and virtual servers.
• Provision to schedule reports on a daily or weekly basis or for a custom period, with the option to email or publish the reports.

9. Seamless integration, making it the one-stop-shop for all your IT Management needs

• Integration with the helpdesk software, ServiceDesk Plus, enables trouble ticketing, define customer SLAs etc.
• Easy integration with other related applications in the ManageEngine suite.
• Other integrations include Webhook, REST:API, Slack, Teams, and custom integrations.

10. The 90 : 10 ManageEngine advantage - Lots of Features, affordable price-points

• Different editions (including a free edition for monitoring 3 devices) to choose from with a start price of $245.
• Reliable enterprise-ready software that does not mandate consulting.
• Constant upgrades by way of Service Packs and Hotfixes at no extra cost.
• 24 X 5 technical support with free technical support during trial: Unlimited email, phone, and online support.