NMIS Erfahrungen

Open source linux based and well written/structured filesystem backed by a great responsive support team for advice or troubleshooting. Easy to install/configure/customise.

There is very little negative to say about the product. My only wish-list item is for an *Unlimited/repeat* escalation option beyond the provided 10 to allow for notifications on offline services only once business hours commences.

Reliability, ease of use, ability to self-host, absolutely excellent documentation, and an OUTSTANDING support team that goes above and beyond to make sure my needs are met.

I wish that the OpManTek tools updated automatically. But, after talking with support, I understand that this could possibly break the tool and because I rely on it for monitoring my network I would rather avoid breaking the tour.

NMIS is hands down one of the best data collection monitoring suites we have ever used. The data and enriched alerting it provides is exactly what we were looking for to make data-driven network decisions for upgrade and growth. It has set us on the path from reactive to proactive!

This is both a con and a pro. This software is not an easy install and gets going product. As part of implmentation, you must really outline your practice and process as well as goals that you want to achieve. Also as you onboard new devices, the process of modeling them to collect the data you want is time-consuming. The average user will not be able to maintain and work on the back end of this software, but because of its complexity, you gain more control than you have ever had before.

The software is flexible and while most things we needed were available out of the box, we were also able to easily extend functionality to cover the things that weren't. The software scales well and we have grown to scale out to 10x our initial deployment as far as node count. The system is entirely Linux-based and happily runs on the well-supported open source distributions. We have the option of using a preconfigured virtual appliance or installing on our standard Linux distribution. Management can be done through the GUI and/or command line enabling scripting of many aspects of system administration

This NMIS8 interface we started with was a bit stale, but this was greatly improved with NMIS9.

NMIS tells us when things aren't working so we can go and fix them, this means we can fix the problems before our customers know they are happening and before any data is lost. We have integrated NMIS with our saltstack configuration management tool so new nodes are automatically created with the correct settings when we deploy them. Customising the threshold settings and adjusting the escalation policy allows us to ensure we do not receive too many notifications which means we actually pay attention to the ones that come though.

I would appreciate having a docker image, a VM image is nice but not useful for me. Installing the software on our server is still very easy but I would prefer using docker. In general, understanding how the pieces of configuration worked together took a while, a diagram for understanding this would have been nice, it was worth figuring out.

The GUI meets very much the needs of our network engineers. There are some very good views (e.g. showing traffic load of all interfaces of a device in one view) that help our stuff to find problems in our network.
Furthermore it is possible to write own plugins to match very specific monitoring tasks.

The GUI of version 8 had some minor features that could need some improvements. We haven't upgraded to new version though...

NMIS is open-source and well backed with a complete wiki and community to support it.

Accessing Opmantek support has you going straight to the engineers, you aren’t jumping through hoops to speak to them.

Nothing.
Only in english language but it is ok.