NMIS
Prevent Outages, Automate Operations, and Gain Real-Time Network Visibility
The network management platform IT teams, MSPs, and telcos have trusted since 1998.
- Monitor every device in real time
- Correlate faults intelligently
- Automate remediation
- See a complete picture of network health
Built on an open-source core, deployed from a single platform.
How It Works
From Discovery to Intelligent Remediation in Three Steps
NMIS uses a single, efficient poll to gather both performance and fault data from every managed device, reducing management traffic while delivering a rich, real-time picture.
Discover & Collect, Know What's on Your Network in Minutes
NMIS discovers network devices via SNMP, WMI, or manual import and begins collecting performance metrics, interface statistics, and health data on an automated schedule.
AI Baseline & Anomaly Detection, Catch Problems Before They Become Outages
Collected data feeds into the business rules engine and live baselining system. NMIS automatically learns normal patterns and classifies events by their operational impact.
Alert & Escalate
When thresholds are breached or anomalies detected, NMIS triggers policy-based notifications through your preferred channels, with escalation chains and planned outage suppression.
Architecture
NMIS Platform Architecture
A layered platform from end-user dashboards down to device polling, built on MongoDB for high-throughput data collection.
Capabilities
The Complete Network Operations Solution: Monitoring, Fault Correlation, Compliance & Automation
From automated fault detection to executive reporting, NMIS provides the tools your network operations team needs, out of the box.
Sophisticated Business Rules Engine
Classify events by business impact, not just technical severity. The rules engine maps device importance to your organisational structure, so a core router failure is treated differently from a branch office switch.
Automated Health Baselining
NMIS continuously learns your network's normal behaviour for availability, response time, and performance. Deviations are flagged automatically, catching problems before they become outages.
Unified Fault & Performance Monitoring, One Poll, Complete Visibility
Collect fault and performance data in a single SNMP poll, reducing management traffic while delivering real-time monitoring, interactive drill-down graphs, and threshold-based alerting.
Pre-configured for 10,000+ Devices
Out-of-the-box support for routers, switches, firewalls, servers, UPS, and more from thousands of vendors. The extensible model architecture makes adding new device types straightforward.
Massively Scalable Architecture
From a single office to globally distributed networks. Add opHA Message Bus for multi-server deployments with unlimited nodes, high redundancy, and a single consolidated view.
Intelligent Alert Escalation, Right Person, Right Time, Zero Noise
Define granular escalation policies per device group with business-hours awareness and chain-of-command routing. Supports email, paging, signs, speakers, and any CLI notification method.
Extend Your Platform
Commercial opModules
Turbocharge your NMIS deployment with powerful add-on modules. Each opModule is licensed separately and integrates seamlessly with your NMIS core.
Built For Your Team
Built for Every Team That Depends on Network Reliability
From single-site IT departments to global telecommunications carriers.
Real-time visibility across every device
Colour-coded dashboards, escalation-driven alerting, and planned outage management give NOC teams instant situational awareness.
- Live health dashboards with drill-down
- Automatic escalation chains
- Planned outage suppression
Multi-tenant monitoring at scale
Multi-tenancy, distributed polling, and role-based access make NMIS ideal for MSPs managing hundreds of customer environments.
- Tenant-isolated views
- Distributed poller architecture
- Role-based access for self-service portals
Prove SLA Compliance, Reduce MTTR, and Plan Infrastructure with Confidence
Automated baselining, threshold alerting, and executive reporting help IT teams respond faster and make data-driven infrastructure decisions.
- Automated anomaly detection
- SLA and availability reporting
- Capacity trend analysis
Under The Hood
Technical Specifications
- Protocols
- SNMP v1/v2c/v3, SNMP Traps, WMI, Syslog
- Supported Devices
- 10,000+ vendor device types out of the box
- Database
- MongoDB (open data, high I/O performance)
- Platform
- 64-bit Linux (RHEL, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu)
- Deployment
- Source install, Virtual Appliance (OVA), or Docker
- Licensing
- GNU GPL (open-source core); commercial modules available
- Language
- Perl, optimised as 64-bit multithreaded application
- API
- RESTful JSON API for all NMIS data (via opCharts)
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