The fastest way to run NMIS 9, Open-AudIT and the full opSuite
The FirstWave VM is a single OVA that ships with everything you need to monitor, audit and automate your network. Deploy it on the hypervisor you already run, and you can be ingesting nodes in under an hour.
Includes a free, time-unlimited licence for up to 20 nodes per module. No credit card.
Latest release
What's in the latest build
Release details
- Release date
- Operating system
- Debian 11
- Direct OVA download
- Download the OVA
Component versions
- NMIS
- 9.6.5
- Open-AudIT
- 5.6.5
- opCharts
- 4.9.1-4
- opConfig
- 4.7.0
- opEvents
- 4.6.4
- opHA
- 5.1.4
- opReports
- 4.6.8
- opAddress
- 2.4.0
What's new in this build
- opEvents: bug fixes for the Durable Escalation Queue and the Event Action Editor.
- Administration: the Addresses column has been removed from Administration → Nodes. Addresses are visible on the Node page.
Why teams choose the VM
Built for network teams who don't have time to babysit a server
Skip the build, keep the control.
The VM is a hardened Debian 11 appliance with every FirstWave module pre-installed, pre-configured and ready to license. You get the operational control of running it inside your own environment, without the days of dependency wrangling.
One stack, end to end.
NMIS 9 for fault and performance, Open-AudIT for discovery and inventory, opCharts for visualisation, opConfig for configuration management, opEvents for correlation and automation, opReports for reporting, opAddress for IPAM, and opHA for distributed deployments. Everything is pre-integrated, so cross-module workflows work on day one.
Production grade from the first boot.
The VM is the same image our customers run in MSP networks, government environments and Fortune 500 enterprises. Snapshot it, replicate it, scale it, or use it as a sandbox before rolling out to bare metal.
A free path to prove value.
The 20-node licence per module is time-unlimited, so you can prove value on a slice of your estate before scaling. When you're ready, our engineers will help size the licence and plan the rollout.
Learn more about each module:
Where it runs
Runs on the hypervisor you already operate
The FirstWave VM ships as an OVA, so it deploys cleanly on every major hypervisor. Pick your platform and follow the conversion guide.
Quick start
Three steps from download to monitoring
Download the OVA.
Grab the latest build from the link above. The image ships with the full opSuite already installed and configured.
Deploy on your hypervisor.
Follow the conversion guide for your platform, then power on the appliance. Default credentials are printed in the Message of the Day on the login screen, and listed in the Default Credentials doc on the Community Wiki.
Run the Getting Started Wizard.
Point a browser at the VM's IP address. The wizard walks you through licensing the modules you want, and adding your first nodes (one at a time, or in bulk via the Excel import template).
A localhost node is added automatically and starts collecting metrics, events and inventory data on first boot.
Free licence
20 free nodes per module. No expiry.
Every module in the FirstWave VM ships with a free, time-unlimited licence for up to 20 nodes. That's a full production-quality network management stack for a small estate, or a fully featured lab for a larger one, at zero cost. When you're ready to grow, our team will help you size the licence and plan the rollout.
Designing a deployment? Talk to a FirstWave engineer.
Whether you're modelling a deployment for 200 nodes or 200,000, our team can walk you through:
- Sizing and architecture for your environment
- Migrating from Nagios, Zabbix, SolarWinds or PRTG
- Distributed and high-availability deployments with opHA
- Custom dashboards, escalations and integrations