NMS (Network Management / Monitoring System)
A Network Management/Monitoring System (NMS) is a set of hardware and/or software tools that allow an IT professional to supervise the individual components of a network within a larger network management framework.
Network management system components assist with:
- Network device discovery - identifying what devices are present on a network.
- Network device monitoring - monitoring at the device level to determine the health of network components and the extent to which their performance matches capacity plans and intra-enterprise Service-Level Agreements (SLAs).
- Network performance analysis - tracking performance indicators such as bandwidth utilization, packet loss, latency, availability and up time of routers, switches and other Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)/WMI -enabled devices.
- Intelligent notifications - configurable alerts that will respond to specific network scenarios by paging, emailing, calling or texting a network administrator.
Some enterprise level NMS
IMPORTANT: Choosing, Implementation and Configuration of any NMS, requires domain specific knowledge. Wrong configuration of any NMS may be slowdown the network performance !!!
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