# Right-size your IT toolkit by upgrading OpManager

Has increasing network size and complexity affected your monitoring capabilities? Explore OpManager's upgrade plans to expand the scope of your monitoring!

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## Why Upgrade OpManager?

You can use OpManager to keep close watch on the availability and performance of your critical IT systems. However, faults can sometimes originate in non-critical devices that support critical IT systems. Outages can also be tracked down to other layers of the IT stack- like traffic spikes, config changes, or application performance.

Monitoring the critical network devices alone won't be enough to secure your network from all eventualities. You need visibility into the critical, semi-critical, and non-critical components of your infrastructure. You also need additional functionalities to detect issues in other layers of the IT stack.

## Explore OpManager's upgrade plans!

### Upgrade to monitor additional devices

#### Get visibility into non-critical and distributed devices

IT service delivery depends on many devices working together. While critical devices like core routers, application servers, and databases are vital, other non critical devices like distribution switches, access points, printers, also play key roles in supporting the critical devices. Therefore, it's essential to monitor your non-critical devices for performance. Also, if you have multiple branch offices, it would be wise to monitor everything centrally to understand how other business divisions are performing.

You can upgrade your OpManager setup either for monitoring additional devices and/or for monitoring the devices in the branch offices via the Enterprise Edition. Monitoring more devices is cost effective with OpManager as the cost per device goes down when you add more devices to your license.

##### Why add additional devices to your license?

- Monitor all devices to eliminate performance issues
- Get holistic network visibility
- Improve root cause analysis
- Get centralized dashboards, reports, and maps

### Upgrade to get additional functionalities

#### Perform additional functionalities with OpManager

In addition to monitoring more devices, you also need insights from other layers of the IT stack to detect the root cause of outages faster. For instance, when an application server goes down, the issue could lie in traffic congestion, a faulty configuration change, or a hardware issue in the datacenter. Monitoring the network and infrastructure layers alone won't provide you with the complete picture. You need visibility into other layers as well. OpManager's add-ons and plugins do just that.

- **Application, cloud, and user experience monitoring**
- **Network performance and IT infrastructure monitoring**
- **Network configuration and compliance management**
- **Network traffic and bandwidth monitoring**
- **Firewall log analysis and optimization**
- **IP address and switch port management**

OpManager's add-ons and plugins are available as separate products. But their functionalities can be selectively enabled within OpManager's interface.

## Save an average of 40% when implementing multiple add-ons with OpManager Nexus

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Add-ons deliver immense value to IT teams by speeding up root cause analysis. However, implementing multiple add-ons can result in exorbitant license costs. OpManager Nexus resolves this with it's inclusive licensing structure. Related monitoring functionalities are grouped together in OpManager Nexus. If you want to monitor the performance of a device, you can also manage the configurations, and monitor an equal number of traffic interfaces.

On an average OpManager Nexus can save up to 40% on license costs for IT teams while delivering the functionalities of multiple IT tools.

## What are the advantages of enabling additional functionalities?

### All-in-one monitoring

Unify monitoring the network, traffic, storage, infrastructure, servers, databases, applications, websites, and the cloud. You can track the status, health, and performance of your entire IT stack from a single console.

### Unified IT management

Manage network bandwidth usage, configuration backups, IP addresses, system resources, hardware health, compliance violations, firmware vulnerabilities, and firewall rules with one solution.

### Uniform access control

You can reduce the complexity of tracking access control and security measures in your IT tools with OpManager's user access control settings. You can manage access control for multiple IT teams from one tool and enforce strong user authentication.

### Increased savings

OpManager's unique pricing structure also includes discounted pricing for additional monitoring features. Instead of purchasing or subscribing to multiple tools, you can upgrade OpManager to enjoy the same functionalities at a lesser price.

## Enable add-ons with a click: Incorporate additional functionalities within the UI

OpManager's add-ons aren't separate products that require installation and configuration. Add-ons can be bundled with OpManager and can be enabled within the UI. All you have to do is apply for the extended license and enable the add-ons with a click.

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