Learn how these essential processes work, why they matter, and how you can use them to improve your network management.

The networking landscape of the future will be more complex to navigate than ever before. The global cost of cybercrime is estimated to reach 15.63 trillion U.S. dollars in 2029, following a continuous increase over the prior 16 years. Global data creation is set to reach more than 180 zettabytes in 2025, up from 64.2 zettabytes in 2020. And the proliferation of AI is unavoidable – according to Gartner, “by 2029, 10% of global boards will use AI guidance to challenge executive decisions that are material to their business.”

To keep ahead of these trends and prevent negative impacts to their bottom line, effective network management is essential – and taking proactive steps to achieve and maintain network compliance will become more critical than ever. But how do you achieve effective network management if you don’t know which assets are on your network?

Network discovery and auditing play a key role in achieving compliance, fortifying security, increasing operational resilience, and ensuring business continuity. The repository of information you gather from automating your discovery and auditing provides what is known as a Network Source of Truth (NSoT) – a central data repository you can use to effectively manage and configure your entire network.

In this complete guide to discovery, auditing, and compliance, we’ll review the key functions of network discovery and auditing, how they work together to achieve compliance, and why you should use a tool like Open-AudIT for these processes.

Table of Contents

• What is network discovery?
• What is network auditing?
• What is network compliance?
• How discovery, auditing, and compliance work together
• Why discovery, auditing, and compliance matter
• Discovery, auditing, and compliance tools
• Achieve network compliance with Open-AudIT

What is network discovery?

Discovery is your foundation to achieving compliance and effectively managing your network. Network discovery simply refers to the process of identifying all devices and components connected to your business network, creating a comprehensive inventory of assets including hardware devices, software applications, and services.

Network discovery typically involves various methods like running scripts (like Python, Powershell, or Bash) and sending ping requests, SNMP queries, or port scans to detect and examine network components. As a result, teams can collect data on device types, versions, connections, access controls, usage patterns, and more.

Performing regular network discovery pulls back the curtain to offer network teams several capabilities they didn’t have before:

• Achieve compliance: Access to regularly updated and recorded network inventory is the first step to maintaining compliance with industry regulations and standards (more on this soon).
• Effectively allocate resources: Optimize network performance and costs by identifying underutilized resources and balancing resource allocation.
• Keep devices up to date: Ensure each network device has the latest software and device versions to patch vulnerabilities and protect data from end to end.
• Asset management: Get a comprehensive inventory of all network devices, applications, and services, enabling better asset tracking and management. This includes end-of-life hardware, operating systems, and software, as well as greenfield and brownfield devices.
• Security monitoring: By identifying unauthorized devices or unwanted user permissions through methods like firewall service monitoring and Windows security dashboards, network discovery enhances network security and prevents cyberthreats
• Troubleshooting: With a detailed map of the network topology and connected devices, administrators can more easily diagnose, resolve, and prevent network issues.

Network discovery is a fundamental process that equips IT professionals with a comprehensive understanding of their network infrastructure, enabling them to manage, secure, and optimize their networks more effectively through auditing.

What is network auditing?

While discovery simply “finds” what’s on your network, auditing is the process of interrogating this information to evaluate and assess the security, performance, and compliance of your network. Teams can do this by filtering their discoveries using custom parameters to explore almost anything they could want to know.

Network audits produce reports which can (and should) be kept for business records; they can also be used to track changes in your network over time. The information collected in discovery can be used to generate audit reports like:

• Asset inventory snapshot: Record a comprehensive list of network-connected devices, systems, and assets including servers, routers, switches, printers, IoT devices, and end-user devices like employee workstations.
• Network topology map: See how devices on your network are connected to each other.
• Device configuration: Capture the configuration details of network devices like firewalls, switches, and routers, and track configuration changes over time.
• Access control: Check user permissions and access levels across your devices and software to manage internal threats.
• Security vulnerabilities: Find outdated software, open ports, weak passwords, or insecure protocols such as Telnet.
• Traffic and bandwidth usage: Check bandwidth usage across different parts of the network and identify congestion points.
• Compliance status report: Check your network’s compliance against industry regulations or standards like GDPR, HIPAA, or PCI-DSS, ACSC Essential Eight, or CIS.

Conducting regular network audits is crucial for business continuity as it helps organizations maintain a secure and compliant network infrastructure. By identifying and addressing potential issues proactively, you can mitigate risks, prevent data breaches, and avoid costly downtime or regulatory penalties.

What is network compliance?

While there are plenty of other benefits to managing your network through effective discovery and auditing, network compliance is the main reason you should do so.

Achieving network compliance means adhering to relevant regulations and standards that maintain data integrity, privacy, and security, among other things. Compliance is a non-negotiable part of network management, and the trust of customers, investors, and partners can hinge on an organization’s ability to meet their industry’s regulatory standards.

Organizations should remain vigilant about their compliance to meet legal and regulatory requirements, avoiding hefty fines and reputational damage. The regulatory frameworks your organization is required to comply with (if any) depend on your industry and region/s of operation, and will almost always include data security measures.

You may have internal regulations to consider, too – for example, perhaps you work for an enterprise that also enforces its own set of data privacy rules.

Using network discovery and auditing, businesses can achieve compliance by:

1. Identifying applicable regulations based on the organization’s industry, location, and data handling practices.
2. Conducting regular network audits that identify potential vulnerabilities and areas of non-compliance in accordance with these regulations.
3. Implementing security controls and fixes to address identified risks and stay compliant with relevant regulations.
4. Continuously monitoring the network for compliance violations and security incidents.
5. Producing compliance status reports that check against industry regulations and that serve as a record for compliance verification.
6. Maintaining detailed documentation and audit trails over time for change tracking and compliance audits.

How discovery, auditing, and compliance work together

Each of these processes strengthens the others: discoveries provide visibility, audits assess security and compliance, and together, they enable organizations to maintain compliance in a structured, thorough way. Network compliance, in turn, relies on accurate discovery data to ensure accurate audits and ongoing alignment with security policies.

When you run a network discovery, you can run several audits from that discovery for the purposes of:

• Storing compliance reports
• Reviewing and fixing issues to maintain compliance
• Checking against internal standards
• Tracking changes over time
• Focusing on a specific part of your network, like bandwidth distribution or hardware warranty status.

Why discovery, auditing, and compliance matter

Would you trust a healthcare provider that wasn’t HIPAA-compliant, a utilities provider that wasn’t NERC-compliant, or a bank that wasn’t PCI DSS-compliant? Would you just hope your personal data was safe and these services didn’t go down, or would you take your business somewhere else?

As networks grow more complex, the processes of discovery and auditing are the ultimate way to not just achieve compliance, but also achieve a profitable business.

Every organization should take compliance seriously, as failure to achieve it can result in:

• Costly fines from regulators
• Legal liabilities, including potential lawsuits
• Long-term reputational damage
• Increased government scrutiny
• Interrupted business operations
• Loss of trust from customers and investors.

On a broader level, the consequences of not managing your network can also lead to:

• Cyberattacks from network vulnerabilities, outdated software and devices, or unauthorized network access
• Ballooning costs due to unchecked network inefficiencies
• Performance issues due to lack of visibility over usage patterns, traffic, and bandwidth
• Poor resource allocation, leading to bottlenecks and underutilized resources
• Difficulty diagnosing and resolving network issues, increasing mean time to resolution and causing downtime, latency, jitter, and impaired user experience
• Challenges managing and integrating your network as you add service providers, locations, and automations over time.

There’s no need for your team to perform manual discoveries and audits. In fact, we advise against it – manual audits are prone to oversights and inconsistencies, and can be incredibly time-consuming.

Instead, automating network discovery processes with a tool is an easy way to provide your business with a NSoT. A NSoT allows you to check and validate your network performance and take complete control of your network management.

As a result you’ll save time and resources, improve reliability, and allow for proactive issue resolution. This efficiency boost has a ripple effect across your entire organization, reducing operational hiccups, minimizing downtime, and speeding up time to market.

You can automate and customize your network discoveries to make sure nothing is missed by using a purpose-built tool.

Discovery, auditing, and compliance tools

Effective network management requires a tool that can integrate with your network, scan for devices, store configurations and other information, and generate insights for auditing and decision-making.

You can ensure you choose the best tool for your organization by checking it offers:

• the ability to run scheduled and unscheduled discoveries
• information displayed in a detailed, customizable dashboard
• extensive vendor support
• multiple different audit report options
• integration with existing infrastructure and security solutions
• the option to audit against industry benchmarks for easy compliance.

These features give you the ability to keep your network compliant with minimal effort, as well as the flexibility to effectively manage your network as it becomes more complex.

Achieve network compliance with Open-AudIT

With intelligent discovery, auditing, and compliance features, FirstWave’s Open-AudIT gives you complete and cost-effective visibility and control of your network, enabling you to manage your assets and achieve compliance effortlessly. Plus, with the Community Edition, it’s free to get started (with the option to purchase additional functionality).

When you use Open-AudIT, you’ll get features like:

• Accurate device discovery: Run automated or unscheduled discoveries, including SSH and SNMPv3, to get detailed records on all network-connected devices. Dive deeper with the ability to filter for devices within certain parameters (for example, within an IP address range).
• Complete coverage: Set up local collectors on air-gapped parts of your network or across different geographic locations, so you don’t miss a thing.
• Detailed dashboards: Explore anything you could want to know about your network with Open-AudIT’s extensive dashboards, giving you the ability to visualize your discovery data any way you like.
• Extensive reporting: Filter and export discovery data to more than 80 different types of reports, making it easy to scrutinize devices, user permissions, software and hardware versions, connection information, and much more.
• Benchmark standards and policies: If you use Open-AudIT Enterprise, you can easily achieve compliance with custom benchmarks. Choose from our long list of included industry standards or set custom benchmarks based on your organization’s own security policies.
• Seed discoveries: Get a complete snapshot of your network by running a seed discovery—a sequence of discoveries run from a single “seed” router to build an extensive picture of every device on your network—to get a thorough bird’s-eye view.
• Shadow IT protection: Open-AudIT helps you identify unauthorized devices or malicious activities on your network, known as shadow IT, through continuous network monitoring. Plus, if your organization has blacklisted software, you can customize Open-AudIT to notify you if this software is discovered.
• Change tracking: Open-AudIT tracks changes to specific device attributes, including installed software, hardware, and settings, so you can easily audit changes over time.
• Role-based access control (RBAC): Get granular control over user permissions to filter and limit access to sensitive network data, reducing the risk of insider threats.

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Effective network management through discovery, auditing, and compliance is crucial for business success. Open-AudIT provides these capabilities in a user-friendly, comprehensive platform that will grow with your business.

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As business networks grow and modernize, attack surfaces continue to increase, leaving more opportunities for bad actors to strike. According to Forrester, “two years ago, 63% [of organizations] said they had been breached at least once in the past year. This year, that number rose to 78%.”

Every October, Cybersecurity Awareness Month is the perfect opportunity to review and strengthen your security posture, preventing your business from becoming a statistic. The theme for Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2024 is “Cybersecurity is everyone’s business”. As part of this theme, governments and cybersecurity authorities are promoting four key focus areas:

1. Turn on multi-factor authentication
2. Keep devices and software up to date
3. Use strong and unique passwords
4. Recognize and report phishing.

Some of these focus areas are straightforward, but others—like keeping devices and software up to date—become more difficult to achieve as your network expands. In this blog, we’ll look at how using a comprehensive discovery, auditing, and compliance tool like Open-AudIT makes it easy for you to audit your devices and software from end to end – plus so much more.

About Open-AudIT

Do you really know everything that’s connected to your network beyond computers? Do you know who has access to what, and which software programs are installed on different devices? What if you could get all of this information in one tool?

Each device on your network forms part of your attack surface; the more you expand, the larger that attack surface becomes. But Open-AudIT gives you complete visibility and control of your network, enabling you to identify gaps in your network and secure it from end to end.

With intelligent discovery, auditing, and compliance features, Open-AudIT gives you immediate access to software licensing, configuration changes, non-authorized devices, capacity utilization, hardware warranty status reports, and more. Plus, the software is free to use (with the option to purchase additional feature sets).

How Open-AudIT improves your cybersecurity

You can use Open-AudIT to do more than just keep your devices and software up to date; you can use its intelligent features to meet a range of security controls and protect your network.

Accurate device discovery

Open-AudIT’s discovery feature identifies every device on your network, giving your security team full visibility and helping you meet system inventory controls. By keeping an accurate inventory of all your systems and devices you can effectively manage security risks, patch vulnerabilities, and respond to incidents quickly.

• Scheduled discoveries automatically discover all network-connected devices, including any unauthorized or unknown devices that could pose security risks, as well as identifying potential threats.
• You can also run an unscheduled discovery by setting the parameters of what you want to interrogate (for example, an IP address range) and running a search to see everything on your network that fits within these parameters.
• If you want to see everything, you can run a seed discovery. This is where Open-AudIT discovers all connected devices connected to a single “seed” router, continuing to run subsequent discoveries until you have a complete picture of every device on your network.

Extensive asset management reports

Open-AudIT collects massive amounts of data—including user permissions, software versions, serial numbers, and IP addresses—to give you access to over 80 types of reports, making it easy to meet asset management controls. Use these reports to maintain current device configuration records, keep security patches up to date, identify unapproved devices, quickly isolate compromised devices, and keep compliance with security policies.

Software license auditing

Outdated or unsupported software leaves you susceptible to cyberattacks. Open-AudIT keeps a detailed log of installed software to help you ensure that only authorized versions are present and that your systems are up to date.

Continuous monitoring for shadow IT

Open-AudIT helps you identify unauthorized devices or malicious activities on your network, known as shadow IT, through continuous network monitoring. Detecting these abnormalities is essential for ensuring only authorized devices are communicating over your network, meeting critical security controls and protecting your business.

Change tracking

Open-AudIT tracks changes to specific device attributes, including installed software, hardware, and settings, for easy auditing and change management. FirstWave’s opConfig also supports comprehensive configuration change tracking for network devices with a CLI-targeted inventory.

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

Open-AudIT gives you granular control over user permissions, helping you filter and limit access to sensitive network data within the platform. This reduces the risk of insider threats by ensuring that only authorized personnel can modify or view critical network information.

Configuration benchmarks and compliance

Open-AudIT can compare device, software, and user configurations against pre-defined benchmarks. This helps you spot deviations that could signal a vulnerability or misconfiguration, helping you resolve them quickly. Open-AudIT’s scheduled scans also help detect any changes in device configurations, ensuring compliance with security protocols and alerting users to potential risks before they escalate.

If you use Open-AudIT Enterprise, you can even set custom benchmarks to help you achieve compliance for both internal and industry security standards. You can either custom-define your own benchmarks based on your organization’s internal compliance requirements, or you can access a huge variety of benchmark lists for different industries – like HIPAA, NIST SP 800-171, or PCI DSS.

FirstWave: a leader in cybersecurity

Since 2004, FirstWave has been delivering one of the only cybersecurity solutions of its kind to global customers. Today, we’re a market leader with over 150,000 customers worldwide.

Where competitors focus on getting more customers and generating more revenue, we focus on optimizing our products and supporting our end-users. Many of the developers on our small team have been at FirstWave and in the cybersecurity industry for many years; some have even been with us since our inception. As a result our product suite is not only rich in features, but also comes with unmatched support from our dedicated team.

It doesn’t end with Open-AudIT

If you want to take your network security a step further, FirstWave helps businesses fortify their security postures with other solutions like:

• CyberCision™: Our advanced security management platform allows service providers to grow revenue by provisioning cybersecurity services at a reduced cost. CyberCision’s email security and web protection features can also help protect your organization from phishing – another key focus area of this year’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month.
• STM (Secure Traffic Manager): This intelligence-driven platform provides real-time traffic visibility and control, so you can turn off traffic from bad links and improve Quality of Service (QoS).
• NMIS (Network Management Information System): NMIS offers comprehensive network management and handles faults, performance, and configurations with ease. There are several NMIS modules that can improve your cybersecurity:
  • opConfig: Create baseline configuration rules on any device to support security protection and compliance. Change standards across devices automatically, including running super user commands, to make changes based on insights gleaned from Open-AudIT reports.
  • opEvents: Capture security events and set up custom alerts to notify you in real time. Link opEvents to opConfig to create automated actions in response to certain events.
  • opCharts: Access everything you could want to know about your network environment through a single pane of glass. Use dashboards, maps, and charts to visualize and combine multiple data sets.

Open-AudIT is used by over 130,000 organizations worldwide for good reason: No other IT auditing software can discover as much as Open-AudIT. There’s no better time than Cybersecurity Awareness Month to review and upgrade your cybersecurity posture, and by integrating Open-AudIT into your enterprise network, your business can proactively protect itself from cyberthreats.

 

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Table of contents

• What is network management software?
• How does network management software work?
• Why use network management software?
• Network management software tools
• How to choose a network management software
• Manage your network with NMIS

As organizations scale their operations and virtualize more of their infrastructure, networks are growing more complex. Add in AI integration, network automation, and globalized remote workforces, and this complexity multiplies.

Businesses need the right tools to ensure their network—and their entire operation—continues to run smoothly as they modernize. This is where network management systems come in. According to Grand View Research, the global network management market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10.1% from 2023 to 2030.

Whether you’re managing a handful of network devices or enterprise-level infrastructure, the best way to protect your employee productivity and customer experience as you grow is by using network management software (NMS). This guide covers how NMS works, how your business will benefit from using it, and how you can choose the right provider for you.

What is network management software?

In short, NMS gives network teams a bird’s-eye view of every connected device on their network including routers, switches, servers, and even IoT devices. As a result, network administrators can manage configurations, track network usage, troubleshoot devices, and identify minor issues before they escalate.

How does network management software work?

At a high level, NMS integrates with your network to collect, analyze, and present data from every connected device. In order to do this, NMS is made up of network monitoring tools, device configurations, event tracking capabilities, and logging mechanisms that perform the following functions:

• Data collection: NMS uses protocols like Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), SNMP traps, Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP), syslog, or Application Programming Interface (API) to continuously collect real-time data on device status, performance, and network traffic from devices including routers, switches, and servers.
• Network analysis: after collecting data, NMS will analyze it to intelligently detect issues like high latency, downtime, or unusual traffic patterns.
• Alerts and notifications: customizable alerts can be automatically set when performance thresholds are breached, for example, when bandwidth exceeds a set limit. These alerts can be sent to administrators via email, SMS, dashboard notifications, or an IT Service Management (ITSM) platform like ServiceNow or Jira.
• Automation: NMS can automate routine tasks like device configuration updates or failed device resets, based on parameters set by the network administrator.
• Logging and reporting: NMS maintains network activity logs that can be used for troubleshooting, audits, or compliance support. You can also generate detailed reports to help your team analyze trends over time and plan for future capacity needs.

The data collected from these functions is displayed on visual dashboards in the NMS platform, where you can explore and extract detailed network insights.

NMS is usually easy to set up: simply download from your chosen vendor and install on a server (typically Windows Server or Linux) connected to the network/s you want to manage. Then, configure it by following the vendor’s installation instructions to get full visibility of your network.

 

Why use network management software?

Today’s networks often involve cloud services, hybrid architectures, and remote devices. In this environment, running a network without any kind of management system is like flying a plane with no instrument panel – possible, but incredibly risky and inefficient.

Network management software helps network administrators prevent challenges like:

• Limited visibility which can lead to severe network security breaches, missed opportunities to optimize, or outages that may go unnoticed for hours and impact business operations (for example, the recent CrowdStrike outage)
• Performance issues caused by suboptimal traffic flows, inefficient resource consumption, and easy-to-miss network errors
• Siloed network management that makes it difficult for your IT team to apply updates and automations at scale, leading to performance problems and security vulnerabilities
• Missed opportunities to optimize your network performance, efficiency, and costs
• Manual configuration management, which is time-consuming and prone to human error.

On the other hand, investing in network management software comes with a host of benefits:

• Accurate inventory management: get end-to-end network visibility at a glance and easily manage which devices can access your network.
• Increased efficiency: offload essential network functions like device audits, security checks, and performance management, freeing up your network team to focus on more strategic tasks.
• Better performance: find opportunities to optimize your traffic flow and resource consumption, reducing latency and hops where possible.
• Proactive issue resolution: NMS provides real-time insights, enabling teams to catch and resolve potential outages and issues before they affect end users.
• Improved security: comprehensive monitoring tools track network activity, helping to identify potential security breaches early.
• Cost savings: by automating tasks and reducing downtime, businesses save money on maintenance and avoid the high costs that can come with network failures.
• Enabled automation: automate network changes and software updates to prevent “holes” in your network and save time.
• Right-sized forecasting: use the detailed data available to accurately predict and prepare for future capacity needs, so you don’t overspend or underprovision.

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Network management software tools

A good NMS suite will offer several tools to give you full control over your network management experience. These are the various tools and features typically offered:

Monitoring

Network monitoring is the foundation of NMS. It provides real-time visibility into your network performance and helps track devices, traffic, and potential threats.

• Proactive monitoring: identifies issues like latency or bandwidth overload before they impact user experience.
• Device status checks: continuously monitors connected devices for availability and performance.
• Performance tracking: collects several metrics to help you manage your network performance including latency, packet loss, congestion, server load, and storage utilization, just to name a few.

Configuration management

Configuration management helps IT teams control settings and updates across every network device.

• Automated backups: regularly backs up configuration files to avoid data loss.
• Configuration rollbacks: easily restores the last known good configuration if an error occurs.
• Streamlined updates: automatically pushes updates to all devices, minimizing downtime and ensuring consistency.

Alerts and events

Network alerts are crucial to minimizing downtime and catching issues before they impact your bottom line.

• Customizable alerts: notifies chosen users based on custom-set thresholds for metrics – for example, traffic spikes, device failures, or underlying application performance spikes.
• Proactive notifications: provides the ability for teams to proactively respond to network events in real time, before they become critical issues.
• Escalation policies: tiered alert systems notify different teams based on the severity of the issue, ensuring relevant people are made aware in real time. These systems can also perform other functions like running system checks to ensure availability of required troubleshooting output for quick remediation, creating tickets to external ITSM platforms, etc.

Tracking and traffic insights

Understanding how your network traffic moves can empower you to make noticeable performance improvements.

• Analyze traffic flow: pinpoints bandwidth hogs and routing inefficiencies that may be impacting overall network performance.
• Identify usage patterns: shows which applications or devices are consuming the most resources, empowering you to make improvements.
• Optimize bandwidth allocation: prioritizes business-critical applications over other applications to accelerate your time to revenue.

Logging and auditing

Network logs and audits provide a detailed record of all network activity, and are an invaluable tool for troubleshooting and security audits.

• Detailed logs: records every network event, from login attempts to configuration changes, giving you full visibility.
• Compliance audits: maintains accurate and detailed records that can help meet regulatory standards.
• Troubleshooting: uses logs to identify patterns or errors that may be causing network issues or to identify general areas of improvement.

How to choose a network management software

There are several NMS options currently on the market, but not all are equal. To make sure you get the best possible value out of your NMS, look for a provider with:

• Out-of-the-box functionality for quick and easy setup;
• A simple and scalable business rules engine so you can easily integrate and scale it with your network as your business grows
• A large number of supported vendors so you can easily integrate it with your existing network and scale up over time
• Detailed visual dashboards that feature several ways for you to explore and view your network monitoring data
• Automated health baselining that compares your device health to the previous baseline period for deep monitoring of your network health
• Customizable alerts and escalations you can adjust to suit your organizational structure, hours of operation, and chain of command
• Support resources to help you get more out of the software – bonus points if they have a community wiki.

With the right provider, NMS will give you a high-speed, efficient, and automated network that can boost your profitability.

Manage your network with NMIS

FirstWave Network Management Information System (NMIS) is a complete NMS that handles the collection, rules, and presentation of your network data, from a single office implementation to the largest distributed environments as well as carrier networks, large global data center deployments, locked down networks, and more.

NMIS uses a single poll (usually SNMP) for performance and fault data, which reduces the bandwidth of network management traffic. The returning data creates real-time performance monitoring and graphing.

When NMIS pollers are deployed throughout your network, they can be easily managed to avoid bottlenecks and enable zero-cost redundancy. Both the front- and back-ends of NMIS are highly extensible, making it easy to add features.

Key features

• Start monitoring your network in a day with a pre-configured, out-of-the-box solution.
• Our powerful, simple business rules engine is easy to scale across networks with any number of devices.
• NMIS supports 10,000 vendors (and continuously growing) for complete integration with your current and future network setup.
• Customize alert escalations to suit your business and escalate events based on your organizational structure, hours of operation, or chain of command.
• Generate custom statistics for an extensive list of metrics with personalized reporting.
• NMIS runs on a powerful open-source foundation, allowing you to customize and extend the platform to fit your unique requirements.

Additional modules are also available from FirstWave to extend the capabilities of NMIS:

• opEvents: centralize and automate log and event management.
• opConfig: automate configuration and compliance management.
• opHA: manage distributed networks through a single pane of glass.
• opAddress: audit and manage IP addresses.
• opReports: get advanced analysis and reporting for even deeper insights.
• opCharts: access interactive dashboards and charts.
• opFlow: see exactly what’s happening across your network with advanced traffic analysis.

 

 

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