NetXMS — Enterprise-Grade Monitoring

NetXMS is an open-source network and infrastructure monitoring and management solution that provides comprehensive performance and availability monitoring with flexible event processing, alerting, reporting, and graphing for all layers of IT infrastructure. It's a unified solution that can monitor and manage your entire IT infrastructure — from network switches to applications — all in one place.

🚀 Quick Start

• Docker Setup - Fastest way to get started
• Download - Get the latest release
• Documentation - Complete administration guide
• Ubuntu installation video - Video tutorials and webinars
• Demo - NetXMS demo

🏗️ Architecture

NetXMS follows a distributed architecture with a central management server, monitoring agents, and web/desktop clients. The system supports multiple deployment scenarios from single-server setups to large distributed environments.

✨ Key Features

🌐 Network Monitoring

• Auto-discovery: Automatically discovers and adds network devices to NetXMS
• Protocol support: SNMP (all versions), SSH, web services (XML, JSON, plain text)
• Data collection: Collects information via ARP caches, routing tables, switch forwarding databases, LLDP, CDP, STP
• Real-time updates: Automatically updates peer information for all registered hosts and devices
• Advanced search: Provides searches for specific MAC or IP addresses, wireless access points, and wireless clients
• Network visualization: Easy access to routing tables, MAC tables, VLAN information, IP route visualization, and network maps based on discovered data
• Event correlation: Topology-based event correlations for intelligent alerting
• Change detection: Configurable routing change detection
• Device drivers: Vendor-specific information handling and unified presentation

🖥️ User Interface

• Multi-platform clients: Desktop version available for Windows, macOS, and Linux
• Web interface: Full-featured web-based console
• Flexible visualization: Graphical network maps and user-configurable dashboards
• Third-party integration: REST API and Java library enable integration with external tools like Grafana, plus built-in fanout drivers for InfluxDB, ClickHouse

🖥️ Server and Workstation Monitoring

• Universal agents: Available for all popular platforms and operating systems
• Centralized management: Configuration and upgrades, minimal system resources usage
• Proxy capabilities: Acts as proxy for other agents and SNMP devices
• Network-friendly: Two connection options with agents outbound or inbound, single TCP port, encrypted communication with local cache for unstable connections
• Log monitoring: Real-time log file content analysis
• Comprehensive metrics:
  • Network and I/O performance
  • Process, CPU, and memory consumption
  • Network services monitoring
  • Hardware sensors
  • Application-level metrics
  • Custom metrics support
  • And more...
• Remote control: Integrated remote desktop, file transfer, and command execution
• User support tools: Low-footprint helpdesk application with configurable actions, screenshots, and screencasts

🌍 Distributed Monitoring

• Zone-based architecture: Divides networks into zones with overlapping subnets and proxy agents
• High availability: Automatic load balancing and failover with multiple proxy agents per zone
• Autonomous operation: Continues data collection when central management server is unavailable
• Event forwarding: Receives syslog messages and SNMP traps for forwarding or local storage
• Remote monitoring: Single TCP port connectivity for server-to-proxy-agent communication

🔧 Built-in Scripting Engine (NXSL)

• Advanced automation: Enables sophisticated automation and management capabilities
• Hook scripts: Callable from multiple system locations for custom processing
• Versatile applications: Data transformation, complex thresholds, event processing, SNMP trap transformation
• Easy-to-learn: Non-strict typed interpreted language optimized for speed and low memory footprint
• Secure execution: Each script runs in isolated VM with controlled access
• High performance: Supports hundreds of simultaneous script executions

🔗 Integration Capabilities

• Java API: Complete Java API for full system control and UI replacement
• REST API: Access to collected data and NetXMS configuration
• Modular architecture: Extensible agents and servers via plugins
• Python scripting: Access to full Java API through Python
• Helpdesk integration: Built-in integration with helpdesk systems

🔐 Security Features

• Flexible authentication: Internal database or external LDAP directory integration
• Multiple auth methods: Passwords, X.509 certificates, smart cards, RADIUS, or LDAP
• Two-factor authentication: TOTP or one-time codes via SMS/instant messaging
• Encrypted communications: All network communications are encrypted
• Access control: Fine-grained access control configuration
• Audit logging: Extensive audit logs with optional external system integration

📊 Data and Event Processing

• Policy-based processing: Flexible event processing with customizable policies
• Automated responses: Alarm creation/termination, script execution, command execution
• Multi-channel notifications: Email, MS Teams, Telegram, Slack, SMS via GSM modem or gateway
• Escalation support: Configurable problem escalation workflows
• Threshold management: Flexible threshold system for data collection
• Template-based configuration: Simplified management of large networks

💼 Business Services

• Business metrics translation: Converts technical metrics to business language
• SLA monitoring: View vital SLA information at a glance
• Service status calculation: Based on monitored objects status or metric thresholds
• Availability reporting: Calculate business service availability for arbitrary time ranges
• Downtime analysis: Detailed downtime information including start/end times and causes

📦 Installation

Note: Full installation documentation is available in our Administration Guide.

Quick Installation (Debian/Ubuntu)

We provide a public APT repository at http://packages.netxms.org/ for all Debian-based distributions. All packages are signed for security.

1. Add NetXMS repository:

   wget http://packages.netxms.org/netxms-release-latest.deb
   sudo dpkg -i netxms-release-latest.deb
   sudo apt-get update
   

2. Install NetXMS components (example for PostgreSQL):

   sudo apt-get install netxms-server netxms-dbdrv-pgsql
   

3. Configure database connection in /etc/netxmsd.conf

4. Initialize database schema:

   nxdbmgr init
   

5. Start NetXMS server:

   sudo systemctl start netxmsd
   sudo systemctl enable netxmsd
   

Other Platforms

Installers for Windows, AIX, Solaris, and other platforms are available on netxms.org.

Docker

# Quick start with Docker Compose
git clone https://github.com/netxms/netxms.git
cd netxms/contrib/docker
docker-compose up -d

📚 Documentation

• Administration Guide - Complete setup and configuration guide
• Change Log - Latest changes and updates
• NetXMS Scripting Language (NXSL) - Scripting reference
• Data Dictionary - Complete data reference
• Java API Documentation - NxShell and Java API reference
• YouTube Channel - Video tutorials and webinars

🆘 Support

Community Support

• Forum - Community discussions and help
• Telegram - Real-time chat support
• Issue Tracker - Bug reports and feature requests

Commercial Support

• Raden Solutions - Professional support and services

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions from the community! NetXMS follows an issue-first approach and values privacy, performance, and modular architecture.

Before contributing, please read our guides:

• CONTRIBUTING.md - Complete developer contribution guide
• DESIGN.md - Design contribution guidelines and resources

CONTRIBUTING.md includes:

• Project vision and core values
• Development priorities and guidelines
• Required issue-first workflow
• Code standards and testing requirements
• Development setup instructions

DESIGN.md includes:

• UI/UX design guidelines and resources
• Core UX Issues Needing Attention
• Target Audience

Quick links for contributors:

• *Report bugs