Enterprise network monitoring

Monitor enterprise-scale networks with network layer observability, AI-driven monitoring, and intuitive network visualization

Overview

OpManager Nexus (formerly OpManager Plus) gives you complete control over your network layer; Be it performance, bandwidth, configurations, or subnets. Get alerted for abnormal network spikes, track the root cause of outages, manage backups and rollbacks, and allocate IP addresses seamlessly from a unified, on-premise console.

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Monitor latency across networks

  • Monitor the quality of network connections across the LAN, WAN, and wireless networks.
  • Track real-time packet loss and response time with ICMP SNMP, and TCP and get alerted for violations
  • Leverage dashboards, reports, graphs, colour-coded timelines, and network paths to analyze historical network performance

Track traffic and bandwidth statistics

  • Leverage flow technologies like NetFlow, sFlow, J-Flow, IPFIX, Netstream, AppFlow to get real-time visibility into traffic usage.
  • Drill down into network interfaces and track traffic patterns at intervals as low as one minute.
  • Use ML and behaviour-based security analytics to identify abnormal traffic events and perform network forensics.
  • Keep tabs on interface, application, and user-specific bandwidth consumption to optimize bandwidth allocation.

Manage network config lifecycles

  • Manage network configurations for devices like routers, switches, and firewalls across distributed networks to enforce business continuity and compliance.
  • Monitor network hardware for unauthorized changes, config conflicts, and compliance violations.
  • Schedule config backups and track changes by comparing different config versions.
  • Label stable config baselines, set up automated change detection and backups, and run instant config rollbacks.

Take control of IP services

  • Discover and manage IPv4 and IPv6 addresses across your network. Use advanced IP scanning to track available and used IPs in real-time
  • Unify IP address, DNS, and DHCP management to correlate data and accelerate resolution.
  • Monitor switch port status, perform port scanning, and gain full visibility into IP, MAC, and VLAN details.
  • Scan and detect rogue devices trying to connect to your network.

Visualize network topology

  • Visualize network topology: from switch-ports and network interfaces, into virtual hosts, VMs, applications and databases in a unified organization-spanning map.
  • Draw custom map to keep tabs on critical network links and business services with customizable backgrounds, icons, and labels.
  • Integrate Zoho and Google maps with OpManager Nexus to visualize enterprise network sites across distributed locations.

What does AI-driven enterprise network monitoring look like?

OpManager Nexus is an AI-driven full-stack observability solution. This means that it can help your IT team analyze more data, gain better insights, and deliver better quality of service for your users with minimal effort. OpManager Nexus' AIOps is powered by our proprietary, in-built AI engine: Zia.

  • AI-driven anomaly detection: Zia analyzes network traffic patterns to detect abnormal network spikes or dips
  • Automated alarm management: All performance alerts are calculated and updated automatically
  • Smart event correlation: During outages, you'll get a low number of high quality alarms with impact context instead of alarm floods
  • Zia assistant for smarter monitoring: Zia helps you find affected devices, analyze performance graphs, and predict potential issues

FAQ

What is enterprise network monitoring?

Enterprise network monitoring is the practice of overseeing large-scale, complex IT infrastructures to ensure optimal performance and availability. Using tools like OpManager Nexus, it involves real-time tracking of physical and virtual servers, switches, and routers across distributed locations. It transforms traditional monitoring into full-stack visibility, integrating bandwidth, configuration, and security management.

What are the key benefits of performing network monitoring for enterprises?

Proactive monitoring transforms a reactive IT team into a strategic asset by preventing issues before they affect the end-user.

  • Maximized uptime: Identifies bottlenecks and early warning signs of failure, significantly reducing Mean Time to Repair (MTTR).
  • Resource optimization: Prevents over-provisioning or under-utilization of expensive hardware through detailed capacity planning reports.
  • Risk mitigation: Automated configuration backups and compliance audits protect the network from human error and security vulnerabilities.
  • Unified visibility: Monitoring and managing the entire IT stack with a single console reduces IT costs and complexity.
What are the capabilities expected from an enterprise network monitoring solution?

A true enterprise-grade solution like OpManager Nexus must act as a "single pane of glass" for the entire IT ecosystem.

  • High scalability: The ability to monitor thousands of devices and interfaces without performance degradation.
  • AIOps enabled monitoring: Using AI-driven monitoring to drive down MTTR, eliminate alert floods, and to improve anomaly detection.
  • Advanced root cause analysis: Correlation engines that help IT teams pinpoint exactly where a failure started across the stack.
  • Full-stack observability: Native support for NetFlow (bandwidth), APM (Application performance monitoring), NCM (configurations), Security infrastructure monitoring, and IPAM (IP address management).
What are the different types of network monitoring?

Effective monitoring requires a multi-layered approach to cover every facet of data transmission, compute, and storage across IT.

  • Performance monitoring: Tracking latency, jitter, packet loss, and response times to ensure quality of service (QoS).
  • Availability monitoring: Using protocols like SNMP, ICMP, and TCP to ensure devices and services are up and reachable.
  • Bandwidth & traffic analysis: Analyzing flow data to see which applications or users are consuming the most network resources.
  • IT infrastructure monitoring: Monitoring the health and performance of IT infrastructure devices like servers, RAID systems, and load balancers.
  • Virtualization & cloud monitoring: Specialized tracking for VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix, and cloud instances like AWS or Azure.
What are the benefits of full-stack observability in network monitoring?

Observability moves beyond "what" is happening to "why" it is happening by correlating data from every layer.

  • Cross-layer correlation: Connects network performance data with application logs and server metrics to find the true source of lag.
  • Predictive intelligence: Uses historical trends and machine learning to forecast future performance trends and potential outages.
  • Enhanced user experience: By observing the end-to-end journey of a data packet, IT teams can guarantee a seamless digital experience for employees and customers.
  • Silo elimination: Provides a common data language for network, DevOps, and security teams to collaborate effectively.

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