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op5 Network Monitoring Tool Features


op5 Monitor, your easy to use Network Monitoring Tool

op5 Network Monitoring Tool Package
op5 Monitor is a easy to use open source based Network Monitoring tool for the monitoring of computer networks. 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.

 

Fast installation and setup

  • VMware image and full software available for testing
  • Installation 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.

Easy administration

  • Web based
  • Easy to use graphical user interface (GUI) for management and configuration
  • Network scan for quick set up
  • Built in Wiki for easy documentation of host settings, system owner, hardware, guarantee information etc

Built on Open Source

  • Built on Nagios 3 bundled with hundreds of Open Source plugins
  • op5 developed enterprise features and plugins
  • Access to source code
  • Open to code audit
  • Build your own plugins
  • Access to more the approx. 200 fully supported and documented plugins, see our list of supported plugins.
  • 1000 available plugins via Nagios plugin compatability www.nagiosexchange.com (not supported by op5)


Backed by op5

  • Turn-key solutions
  • Professional support and guarantees from op5
  • Combination flexibility and cost effectiveness of open source with responsibility from provider.
  • Professional services and documentation
  • Access to a network of certified local partners for customer specific development, consultancy, training etc





Security

  • 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
  • User and group management functionality for role-based access control
  • Support for implementing redundant and distributed monitoring servers

Professional Services

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





Distributed monitoring

  • Centralized configuration
  • Centralized access to all data
  • Up-to several 1000 of nodes
  • Unlimited number of proxies
  • 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.

Network Visualization (Geography & Topology)

  • Tactical overview of the network status
  • Host groups views
  • Service groups views
  • Hyper maps
  • Network Maps
  • Network drill downs to display local traffic details for individual network segments.
  • Interactive multilayer map functionality for displaying system status in multiple levels

Virtual environments

  • Monitor all layers of virtual environments from one tactical overview
  • Monitoring of virtual servers - VMware ESX and Xen

SLA monitoring


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.


Problem identification and handling

  • Notifications and escalations sent via, Email, SMS, 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.




Easy integration with other systems

  • Integration APIs
  • op5 Statistics for more detailed statistics and data analysis capabilities
  • op5 LogServer for centralized log storage and management
  • and log monitoring.
  • Helpdesk systems
  • ITIL Service Desks ie. ARS Remedy, Easit, Nilex
  • CMDBs and Asset management tools
  • Network discovery tools
  • Device managers

Advanced Reporting

  • Schedule functionality with automatic weekly and monthly e-mail distribution in PDF format
  • Availability reports - Host, hostgroups, services, servicegroups etc
  • Notification reports
  • Top alerters reports
  • System event reports
  • SLA reports
  • And more



Agent based monitoring

  • Native agent for any platform
  • Immune to connection problems



Agentless monitoring

  • Monitoring of remote services (FTP, SSH, HTTP, other)
  • Support of SNMP v1,2,3
  • Support of IPMI
  • SNMP traps

Monitoring of:

  • Monitoring of network services (SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, PING, etc.)
  • Monitoring of host resources (processor load, disk and memory usage, running processes, log files, etc.)
  • Network devices - Routers, Switches, Firewalls, Access Points
  • Hardware devices such as servers or routers
  • Any application
  • Server operating systems - Windows, Linux, Solaris, Netware, OS/400, HP-UX, AIX, MacOS X, True64 etc.
  • SAN and NAS - NetApp, SUN, HP, EMC2 etc.
  • Applications - Processes, Ports, Web Apps, Web Services, Databases, Middleware, Commercial Apps
  • Web servers
  • Security devices
  • Databases
  • Environmental monitoring hardware (see op5 certified probes)
  • Workstations and server operating systems
  • Network services software
  • Application server software
  • ERP systems (Such as SAP, IFS, Movex)
  • IP traffic across lan & wan
  • System parameters
  • Values gathered by sensors
  • Any process

 

 



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