Webinars
Product demonstrations and technical deep dives from the FirstWave team.

NMIS 9 Deep Dive: Advanced Network Monitoring and Automation
Join our product team for an in-depth look at NMIS 9's capabilities including business rules engine, automated baselining, and event correlation.

Alerting for Success: Enhancing Operations with Real-time Insights
Discover how real-time monitoring, proactive alerting, and actionable insights help organizations respond rapidly to critical operational issues.
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[Webinar] Network Observability: Delivering Actionable Insights to Network Operations
Watch Video Watch this on demand webinar featuring EMA Vice President of Research Shamus McGillicuddy to get insights into new network observability research, based on a survey of more than 400 IT professionals and in depth interviews with network en
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[Webinar] How to achieve 'hockey stick' SaaS B2B cybersecurity growth
How to achieve ‘hockey stick SaaS B2B cybersecurity growth.mp4 For many service providers, the promise of rapid cybersecurity revenue, in this race to digitization, has been elusive.
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[Webinar] Packet Pushers Heavy Networking Podcast
NEW Heavy Networking 624 Podcast: Solving Network Problems With NMIS The latest Packet Pushers Heavy Networking 624 podcast is out, feat.
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[Webinar] Packet Pushers: Detect, Diagnose, And Act Podcast
Podcast: Download (46.2MB) Keith Sinclair, CTO and progenitor of NMIS, joins Greg Ferro on Packet Pushers They discuss: What NMIS does and how it works Protocol support including SNMP, WMI, SSH, RESTful APIs, and more The persistence of SNMP Opmantek
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[Webinar] Opmantek How-To: Automate Your Configuration Backup With opConfig
Join Paul McClendon, an Opmantek Support Engineer, as he demonstrates how to quickly automate configuration back up using opConfig.
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[Webinar] The Concept of Inventory in opCharts
Join Nick Day, Senior APAC Engineer, to discuss the real life business problems that brought this opCharts Inventory feature to life, how it is best applied and what this means for your organization.
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[Webinar] opEvents: All About Event Actions
opEvents is a centralized log and event management solution that can fit into any network environment.
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[Webinar] Opmantek How-to: Installing the VM
Join Paul McClendon, Opmantek Support Engineer, as he outlines how to get the Opmantek VM up and running using VirtualBox.
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[Webinar] How to Automate Your Network Management With NMIS 9
Gain a competitive advantage by consolidating and automating all your Network Management in one place.
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[Webinar] Introduction to NMIS 9
Join Keith Sinclair, Opmantek CTO and NMIS founder, as he introduces NMIS 9 and explains the advantages of using NMIS as your management and monitoring solution.
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[Webinar] Creating a Root Cause And Problem Resolution Workflow in Your NOC
Join Mark Henry as he discusses the financial benefits of creating a streamlined problem resolution workflow.
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[Webinar] Leveraging Trending Data for Thresholding and Performance Analysis
Join Mark Henry as he explains the benefits of opTrend and how you can use this platform, combined with opEvents, to gain accurate insights that are intelligently drawn based on the behavior of your network.
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[Webinar] An Interview with Mark Unwin, Open-AudIT Founder
Earlier this week Opmantek celebrated the 21st year that Open AudIT has been in use.
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[Webinar] Advanced Open-AudIT Setup and Configuration
Join Mark Henry as he introduces some key features that can go unnoticed that will really help your network management.

Advanced NMIS Setup and Configuration
Explore advanced NMIS configuration topics including node tuning, polling policies, custom metadata, alert management, and bulk device operations.

NMIS Setup and Configuration
A 45-minute introduction to NMIS covering the latest v8.6.3g release, VM prerequisites, and step-by-step setup and configuration.
![[Webinar] Managing Complex Event Responses](/images/blog/working-with-coffee-650.jpg)
[Webinar] Managing Complex Event Responses
Join Mark Henry as he talks about a subject that is near and dear to his heart, Event Automation and Remediation.
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[Webinar] Collecting Non SSH/Telnet Device Configurations
Join Mark Henry as he explains opConfig’s newest addition that is a plugin architecture.

Troubleshooting Open-AudIT Discoveries
Learn how to diagnose and resolve Open-AudIT discovery failures, from installation issues to firewall and credential management obstacles.

NMIS Initial Setup And Configuration
Mark Henry demonstrates how to get NMIS configured and ready to use, covering features in V8.6.7G, prerequisites, and setup procedures.
Responding to Unauthorized Configuration Changes Using opConfig And opEvents
Join Mark Henry as he explains how easy it is to set up proactive event and configuration management for your organization. Watch this webinar for ideas to better shape your network.
Delivering “Drop & Scrape” Audits
Join Mark Henry as he explains a drop and scrape audit and when to use them.
Expanding On SNMP/WMI Collection With NMIS Collect Plugins
Join Mark Henry as he discusses the customisation and flexibility of the open source NMIS.
Improve Network Performance With opFlow
**Join Mark Henry **as he helps guide you through ways to increase your network’s performance.
[How-To Video] Quick Demonstration Of opCharts
Join Paul McClendon, an Opmantek Support Engineer, as he gives a quick overview of opCharts. opCharts is a dynamic charting, custom dashboards and a RESTful API to visualize NMIS data and more. opCharts is ideal as a custom professional user interface and a customer portal.
Advanced Diagnostics And Network Automation With opEvents
Join Mark Henry as he discusses a topic near and dear to his heart, Network Automation and Automated Diagnostics.
Creating Custom Dashboards & Widgets Using Open AudIT Enterprise
**Join Mark Henry **as he demonstrates the dashboarding flexibility in Open-AudIT Enterprise.
Developing a Client Focused Portal Using opCharts
**Join Mark Henry **as he explains the business benefits of creating custom dashboards for your customers. Whether your clients are internal lines of business (LOB) or external customers (MSP) enabling your end users with self-service tools have been proven to reduce overhead on your call center and engineering team. Join us for this 30-minute session while we learn:
Opmantek How-To: Quickly Import Devices From CSV Into Open-AudIT
Join Paul McClendon, an Opmantek Support Engineer, as he demonstrates how to import devices, using a CSV file, into Open-AudIT.
Auditing Complex Networks With Open-AudIT
**Join Mark Henry **as explains the flexibility in the audit process using Open-AudIT.
Opmantek How-To: Quickly Create Organizations in Open-AudIT
Join Paul McClendon, an Opmantek Support Engineer, as he demonstrates how to create organizations to be used in Open-AudIT.
Opmantek How-To: Export To A File Using Open-AudIT
Join Paul McClendon, an Opmantek Support Engineer, as he demonstrates how to export device data using Open-AudIT.
Opmantek How-To: Schedule A Task In Open-AudIT
Join Paul McClendon, an Opmantek Support Engineer, as he demonstrates how to schedule tasks to run automatically in Open-AudIT.
Opmantek How-To: Create A ew user In Open-AudIT
Join Paul McClendon, an Opmantek Support Engineer, as he demonstrates how to create a new user in Open-AudIT.
opCharts Configuration Wizard
Join Paul McClendon as he demonstrates the easy set-up process to get opCharts and NMIS configured.
Supporting Harmony Dashboards For Event Storms And Remediation
Join Mark Henry as he provides insights into the advantages of looking at your network with UX in mind, rather than performance state only.
Creating An Interactive Dashboard With Building Floor Plan
Join Mark Henry as he walks you through an often missed feature of opCharts that will make your network diagrams look perfect.
[How-To] Controlled Role-Based Access
Open-AudIT has a granular permissions system to determine what a user within Open-AudIT can do, and the items he can do it too. Open-AudIT can be entirely self-contained, or use Active Directory or OpenLDAP for authentication and/or authorization. It’s entirely up to the administrator of Open-AudIT how they would like the Role Based Access Control to work.
[How-To] Open-AudIT Custom Dashboards
Open-AudIT Enterprise gives you the ability to create your own charts, which leads to custom dashboards for your organization.
Importing And Configuring The Opmantek VM
Join Mark Henry as he outlines the process of installing the Opmantek Virtual Machine.
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[Webinar] Cradle to The Grave: Leveraging Opmantek’s Solutions to Manage your IT Lifecycle
Join Mark Henry as describes the advantages of moving up the ITSM levels to become a proactive service.
Open AudIT – Helping the Finance Department
Join Mark Unwin as he walks through the role and user creation for the finance department. He will demonstrate the advantages of creating custom roles for different departments while showcasing how easy it is to create users.
Managing Device Outages in NMIS8 & opCharts
**Join Mark Henry **as he outlines the business importance of planning your outages. The operational risks can be mitigated by using correct outage procedures and will increase your network performance.
Developing Custom Queries With Open-AudIT
Join Mark Henry as he walks through the development process to create a custom SQL statement to query through Open-AudIT.
Software License Auditing Out Of The Box
Join Mark Henry as he explains the importance of Software license management, through carrot and stick enforcement.
Application Performance Monitoring With NMIS8 & opCharts
Join Mark Henry as he outlines the steps in adding a user experience gauge through the use of Business Services. This is quite a detailed webinar that will help any business achieve better network performance and happier stakeholders.
Creating Actionable Reports With NMIS8 & opReports
Join Mark Henry as he runs through the most important reports that can be easily generated in opReports and NMIS 8. These are fault finding reports that can help improve your network quickly.
Configuring Fast Device Polling in NMIS8 & opCharts
**Join Mark Henry **as he discusses the flexibility across the Opmantek suite in custom polling policies. Whether you use the policies to optimise your network by adjusting your time or create custom troubleshooting dashboards with opCharts, Mark will walk you through this process.
Configuring Event Escalation & Notifications
Join Mark Henry as he demonstrates how to automate your event escalations and notifications. He will explain how to set up event automation with the open-source NMIS8 and then how to extend that with opEvents.
Opmantek Solution Overview
**Join Mark Henry **as he discusses some of Opmantek’s award-winning network management solutions.Mark introduces how our product suite solves common problems regarding network management, software licensing, configuration management and more.
[WEBINAR] The Network Manager’s Guide to Reporting
**Join Mark Henry **as he details the critical reports that are necessary for a proactive network management team. The tips and tricks in this webinar will save you countless headaches, and your SLAs will look better also.
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[Webinar] Intelligent Fault and Configuration Management Across Large Scale Networks
Join Mark Henry in this webinar as he discusses intelligent ways to improve your fault management and decrease the levels of downtime in your Network.Deploying intelligent event and configuration management at the scale needed by large networks is no
[Webinar] How to Improve Network Performance by 50% Every Month
Join Mark Henry as he explains the methods he has used in his to improve Network Performance in his extensive history as a Senior Systems Engineer.
[Webinar] Open-AudIT Top 10 Features & Functions You Need
Join Mark Henry as he details the Top 10 Features and Functions for Open-AudIT, the free and open-source software used by over 10,000 customers.
[Webinar] NMIS Device Modeling
From the ground-up NMIS was designed to be flexible and easily maintained in the field. The core of this was Opmantek’s focus on abstracting the device modelling layer, making it easy for engineering teams to modify how device information is collected, displayed, and thresholded.
Webinar NMIS Setup and Configuration
Opmantek’s leading network monitoring solution, NMIS, is now more intelligent, automated, and faster than ever before.
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[Webinar] Fault and Configuration Management for Service Providers and Telcos
This 45 minute session will introduce you to the following topics: Leveraging trending data to intelligently adjust Fault Management Reducing Event Noise through Effective Consolidation, Deduplification, Prioritization, and Storm Management Integrati
Webinar: Architecting Open AudIT Enterprise as a Large Scale CMDB Solution
This 45-minute session will introduce you to the following topics:
Deploying Performance Management Solutions at Scale for Service Providers, Carriers, and Telcos
This 45-minute session will introduce you to the following topics:
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[Webinar] Developing a Strategic NOC Service using Opmantek’s Commercial Open Source Solutions
Mark Henry explains the difference between a traditional NOC service and a Strategic NOC service and how you to enhance user experience.
Performance and Fault Management for Managed Service Providers and Enterprise Class Business
This 45-minute session will introduce you to the following topics:
How To Improve Network Performance by 50% Every Month
This 45-minute session will introduce you to the following topics:
How to Quickly Diagram And Document Your Enterprise Network
**Join Mark Henry **in this session as he uses Open-AudIT to find everything on the network and audit it for documentation, then leverages opCharts to create topology maps to show physical and logical relationships.
3 Key Factors to Designing Your Single Pane of Glass Using opCharts
Does the fear of not having insight into your network keep you up at night? Listen to Opmantek’s Mark Henry as he uncovers the in’s-and-out’s of Opmantek’s latest release of opCharts. This new release includes easy to build custom dashboards, live topological diagrams, application, and service monitoring; all in a Single Pane of Glass (SPoG). This SPoG merges performance, fault, and configuration management under one cohesive UI/UX.