Network Monitor Overview

Network Monitor is a web-based monitoring solution for monitoring the performance and availability of a wide array of network devices. Network Monitor monitoring is agentless, meaning it does not install any software or files on monitored machines. Network Monitor comes with 37 built-in methods of monitoring. These methods can be extended using Lua scripts. Advanced Network Monitor features include multi-level alarm escalations, and the ability to configure alarm dependencies so that service providers only receive the most relevant alarms. All common operating systems are supported, including:

AIX (4.2 and above)
CentOS
Debian
Fedora
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Generic Linux
OpenBSD
OpenSUSE 10.2
Red Hat Enterprise Server
Solaris
Ubuntu
Windows

Note: See System Requirements.

Functions	Description
Installation	Provides system requirements, installation instructions and startup configuration.
The management interface	Discusses how to use the web-based administration interface in Network Monitor.
Alarms and alert handling	Discusses alarm configuration and notification using actions and actions lists and recovery action lists.
Advanced topics	Provides an introduction to advanced Network Monitor configurations.
Distributed edition	Describes how to configure the Distributed Edition of Network Monitor.
Monitor reference	Provides a reference to all standard KNM monitors.
Action reference	Provides a reference to all standard KNM actions that can be associated with action lists and triggered by an alarm condition.
Lua	Introduces how to extend Network Monitor functionality using Lua scripts.