# Network Mapping - ManageEngine OpManager

## All-in-one network mapping and monitoring solution

Visualize network performance, topology, and services with OpManager's robust mapping features

![OpManager](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/sem/images/network-mapping/opm-network-mapping-banner.svg)

## Why is network mapping important?

Maps provide visibility into the network by representing network components, their performance, and their topology in visually appealing formats. IT teams can combine this visibility with a network monitoring solution to correlate events, detect the root cause of network issues, and maintain their IT infrastructure.

OpManager combines network mapping and monitoring in its unified console for this very reason. You can leverage OpManager's network protocols to automatically scan and map networks, add monitored devices to custom maps, visualize critical network segments, and oversee large networks spread across multiple locations. Let's explore OpManager's network mapping features.

## Map and visualize any part of your IT infrastructure with OpManager

### Mapping the LAN

OpManager leverages network protocols like LLDP, FDB, ARP, and CDP to scan and draw your LAN. From a single IP address of a central router, you can scan connected network devices and draw a topology map. You can configure a rediscovery frequency to ensure that the map is updated and set up device dependencies between nodes in the map.

![Network monitoring mapping - ManageEngine OpManager](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/sem/images/network-mapping/opm-network-mapping-image1.png)

### Mapping Data centers

With OpManager, you can visualize your remote data centers using server rack views and 3D floor views. You can add monitored devices to a rack view and add racks to a 3D floor representation of a data center. To direct network technicians from afar, or visualize server racks on-site logically, data center network mapping is beneficial.

![Network monitoring mapping - ManageEngine OpManager](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/sem/images/network-mapping/opm-network-mapping-image2.png)

### Mapping critical business flows

Business views are drag-and-drop maps which can represent your network. Business views can represent devices involved in continent-spanning operations to a layout of your floor or your office. Icons and backgrounds in business views can be personalized to your liking.

![Network monitoring mapping - ManageEngine OpManager](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/sem/images/network-mapping/opm-network-mapping-image3.png)

### Mapping WAN links

OpManager tracks WAN links with hop-by-hop visibility into each node. You can set alarm threshold limits for packet loss and response time for a network path and get notified of violations. You can also narrow down the exact hop that's causing congestion to optimize WAN performance.

![Network monitoring mapping - ManageEngine OpManager](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/sem/images/network-mapping/opm-network-mapping-image4.png)

### Mapping virtual networks

OpManager maps virtual networks for popular virtual vendors like VMware, Nutanix, Hyper-V, and Xen. Virtual maps represent logical and network connections between virtual hosts, VMs, and datastores.

![Network monitoring mapping - ManageEngine OpManager](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/sem/images/network-mapping/opm-network-mapping-image5.png)

### Google and Zoho maps in OpManager

OpManager integrates with Google and Zoho maps to add devices to a responsive map of the world. You can add monitored devices from OpManager to their corresponding locations and get a global overview of your IT infrastructure with insights into their status.

![Network monitoring mapping - ManageEngine OpManager](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/sem/images/network-mapping/opm-network-mapping-image6.png)

## Network mapping with OpManager: An overview

### Discover

OpManager supports diverse network protocols like SNMP, WMI, CLI, ARP, LLDP, and CDP to discover your IT infrastructure, classify them, and associate identifying data like device type, IP address, vendor, or model. Furthermore, you can add more context by specifying the location of a device or the department it belongs to.

### Map

OpManager's maps represent monitored devices in multiple formats for simplified network management. Instead of drawing maps manually, you can scan entire networks from a seed router or drag monitored devices in a mapping interface. Performance and uptime statistics are automatically updated.

### Monitor

Monitor the uptime, performance, and health of your network by polling devices at regular intervals. You can drill down from network maps to inspect device performance metrics, enrich maps with useful information, and add maps to dashboards for improved visibility.

### Resolve

Monitored data can be visualized as color-coded graphs to detect dips in performance or unseen bottlenecks. You can also stack graphs to aid in correlating collected metrics from multiple sources. OpManager also features visualization tools like heatmaps, dials, reports, and widgets that aid with fault resolution.

## Gain a bird's eye view of your IT infrastructure with dashboards

### Enterprise dashboard

![Network monitoring mapping - ManageEngine OpManager](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/sem/images/network-mapping/opm-network-mapping-widget1.svg)

Get wholesale visibility into enterprise IT infrastructure consisting of thousands of devices

### NOC view

![Network monitoring mapping - ManageEngine OpManager](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/sem/images/network-mapping/opm-network-mapping-widget2.svg)

Create CCTV views for critical infrastructure components and monitor them from network operations centers (NOC)

### Virtualization dashboard

![Network monitoring mapping - ManageEngine OpManager](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/sem/images/network-mapping/opm-network-mapping-widget3.svg)

Get visibility into the status, performance, and resource utilization of virtualized environments

### Wireless dashboard

![Network monitoring mapping - ManageEngine OpManager](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/sem/images/network-mapping/opm-network-mapping-widget4.svg)

Track wireless LAN controllers, access points, detect rogue users, monitor signal strength, and more from a single dashboard.

### Storage dashboard

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Track the capacity, utilization, and trends of storage resources across your IT infrastructure

### Network performance dashboard

![Network monitoring mapping - ManageEngine OpManager](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/sem/images/network-mapping/opm-network-mapping-widget6.svg)

Track the health, performance, and status of Cisco Meraki networks and devices across multiple sites

## 5 reasons why you should choose OpManager as your network mapping software

### Convenient

Scan and draw network maps in minutes. Schedule network scans to update topology changes. Track device and interface status from maps.

### Versatile

Create maps to suit your needs. OpManager maps layer 2 networks, interfaces, layer 3 paths, virtual, and physical environments.

### Flexible

Sync OpManager with CMDB and ITSM tools. OpManager's layer 2 maps can sync with ServiceDesk Plus' maps for easier IT asset management.

### Intuitive

Create maps effortlessly. Drag and drop devices, set device icons and backgrounds, and add devices from your monitoring inventory.

### Extensive

Leverage 10,000+ device templates to automatically detect and classify device types. Leverage graphs, reports, and widgets to keep tabs on these devices.

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