Features

 

op5 Monitor, an Easy to use Network Monitoring Tool that supports any complexity – today and tomorrow!

op5 Monitor is an easy to use open source based Network Monitoring tool for the monitoring of computer networks and its services. It communicates with devices on the network and collects data about their operational status. It is capable of monitoring network devices, workstations, servers, services, software applications and even physical variables such as temperature and humidity. op5 Monitor uses a plug-in model for active monitoring. Plug ins are executed by the monitoring engine in order to monitor a specific function of a network device or service. Below are a long but not fully exhausted list of features that can be found in op5 Monitor. If you are missing a feature or want clarification, please don’t hesitate to ask us about it.

Usability

  • Turn-key solution that is easy and fast to implement
  • A modern and flexible PHP based user  interface (GUI)
  • Widgets that can be personalized and have independent settings
  • Web-based configuration tool for easier and faster configuration.
  • Search and filtering of information with pagination
  • Template/skin support
  • Multi language support (gettext)
  • Outstanding data visualization tools to make the network data easy to understand
  • Paginated host/service group pages
  • Graph and comment pop-up
  • Integrated Wiki for easy documentation

Fast installation and setup

  • VMware image and full software available for testing
  • Complete nstallation in a couple of hours
  • Setup of thousands of hosts in a couple of days
  • Proven to Monitor tens of thousands of hosts in one consolidated tactical view.

Based on Open Source

Security & User Management

  • Automatic back-up and restore of specific configuration files.
  • Access to full system recovery CD
  • Enhanced security with SSL encryption and multi user access capabilities
  • Authentication, support common authentication protocols
  • User and group management functionality for role-based access control
  • Support for implementing redundant and distributed monitoring servers
  • My account, per user configuration

Distributed monitoring

  • Support for distributed setups
  • Redundancy
  • Load balancing
  • Support for meshed setups
  • Centralized configuration
  • Centralized access to all data
  • Up-to many thousands of hosts
  • Unlimited number of proxies
  • Command forwarding logic for peered setups
  • Use of child servers to:
    • Provide detailed information on the status of the remote location.
    • Can be deployed on either Linux or Windows environments.
    • Increases over all monitoring capacity.

Monitoring of virtual infrastructure

Monitoring of outsourced services

Advanced scheduling of time periods

  • Exception – Enables users to define exceptions in a given time period, for example birth days, public holidays, vacations or other important events
  • Exclude – Enables for users to exclude time from a given time period, for example time that a person does not work, and that way building advanced time periods in a simple way.
  • Scheduled downtime for suppressing host and service notifications during periods of planned outages.

Easy integration with other systems

  • Available integration APIs
  • Helpdesk systems
  • ITIL Service Desks ie. ARS Remedy, Easit, Nilex, LANDesk Servicedesk
  • CMDBs and Asset management tools
  • Network discovery tools
  • Device managers

Easy administration

  • Web based administration
  • Network scan for quick set up
  • Built in Wiki for easy documentation of host settings, system owner, hardware, guarantee information etc
  • Load balancing and redundancy
  • Support for clustering
  • Check port status to keep track of unused switch ports
  • Scheduling
    • Schedule Recurring Downtime
    • Schedule Alert Summary Reports
  • Scan for Windows services

Professional support

  • Professional support and guarantees from op5
  • Combination flexibility and cost effectiveness of open source with responsibility from us as a provider.
  • Professional services and documentation
  • Access to a network of certified local partners for customer specific development, consultancy, training etc
  • Access your support tickets online

We are committed to the Nagios Project

  • op5 Monitor is based on Nagios
  • Members of the op5 development team has key roles in the Nagios Core and Nagios GUI development teams.
  • If you have been using Nagios, your previous work can be transfered/migrated to op5 Monitor.*
  • 1000 available plugins via Nagios plugin compatibility www.nagiosexchange.com (not supported by op5)

Professional Services

  • Expert support via phone and email
  • Automated patch management
  • Free upgrades
  • Product training
  • Events, conferences, seminars

Network Visualization (Geography & Topology)

  • Tactical overview of the network status
  • Host groups views
  • Service groups views
  • NagVis is integrated (Powerful tool for visualisation)
  • GEOMap with Google map integration
  • Network Maps
  • Network drill downs to display local traffic details for individual network segments.
  • Interactive multilayered map functionality for displaying system status in multiple levels

SLA monitoring

Problem identification and handling

  • Faster troubleshooting, easy to find where the problem is located
  • Notifications and escalation sent via Email, SMS or Pager
  • Ability to acknowledge problems via the web interface and sms.
  • Network scan for quick set up
  • Integrated add-ons for HP, DELL, SUN and other generally available SNMP agents.
  • Templates for commonly used infrastructure, applications or traffic flows.

Advanced Reporting

  • Schedule functionality with automatic weekly and monthly e-mail distribution in PDF format
  • Availability reports – Host, host-groups, services, service groups etc
  • Notification reports
  • Top alerts reports
  • System event reports
  • SLA reports
  • And more

Integrate op5 Monitor with Help Desk systems

  • op5 Monitor can easily be integrated with help-desk systems
  • When a problem is detected by op5 Monitor, the system creates an automatic ticket trap in a predefined format and sending it to the helpdesk system.
  • A new helpdesk ticket is automatically created that includes information from op5 Monitor.
  • Examples of ticket handling system integrations:
    • ARS Remedy
    • Easit
    • Nilex
    • Eventum
    • Request Tracker (RT)
    • And more

Agent based monitoring

  • Native agent for any platform
  • Immune to connection problems
  • op5 agents

Agent-less monitoring

Monitor Extensions

  • LogServer Extension – complete centrilized loghandling of all your logs. With reports, alarms, advanced time based filtering
  • Trapper – advanced rule based SNMP trap handling
  • Cloud Extensions – Add an outside view of your public services. Messure application responsetime on web, database or any service
  • Oracle – add support for your Oracle database for all your stored stats and configuration
  • Solaris10 – add support to run your op5 Monitor on Solaris10

ERP & CRM monitoring

* There might be exeptions depending on how its been implemented, let us take a look at your Nagios installation to verify full compatibility.