Introduction
About NetXMS
NetXMS is an enterprise class monitoring system, released under GPL2 license. It can be used for monitoring entire IT infrastructure, starting with SNMP-capable hardware (like switches and routers) and ending with applications on your servers. NetXMS is an extremely reliable and powerful monitoring system, enabling you to improve your network availability and service levels. The system has three-tier architecture: the information is collected by monitoring agents (either our own high-performance agents or SNMP agents) and delivered to monitoring server for processing and storage. Network administrator can access collected data using Windows-based Management Console, WEB Interface or Management Console for PocketPC. Having been designed with flexibility and scalability in mind, NetXMS features a wide range of supported platforms, leaving you the freedom of choice of platform(s) for your network. NetXMS Server, the core system, is currently available for Windows NT/2000/2003/XP, Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and FreeBSD. High-performance modular monitoring Agents are available for the same platforms as well as for OpenBSD, NetBSD, Novell NetWare, and Nokia IPSO. NetXMS currently supports the following databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Microsoft SQL and Oracle.
What you can do with NetXMS
NetXMS can help you accomplish many tasks in network management. With NetXMS you can (and much more):
- Monitor status of your network devices
- Monitor status of your hosts
- Monitor status of applications running on your servers;
- Collect performance data from your network devices
- Collect performance data from servers
- Store collected data for later analysis
- Monitor text log files and Windows event log
- Discovery network IP topology
- Automatically discover new hosts and devices
- Notify system administrator(s) about problems via e-mail or SMS.
About this manual
This manual is intended for both NetXMS administrators and users, and provides all information necessary to successfully operate NetXMS.