Enigma NMS Initial Setup

Matt   Davis - PeerSpot reviewer
Monitoring Systems Technician

It’s hard to generalize and be objective in this assessment because I was new to network monitoring, and new to ISP operations, and new to SNMP, and new to Linux. Just about everything was new to me. Someone with better background knowledge would probably have been much faster than I was. 

If you are a company that is on a private network behind a firewall, I would say just let Enigma go to town auto-discovering the entire subnet. Looking back, I would recommend deciding on IP numbering conventions, and device and interface naming conventions, and implement those conventions before doing any discovery, but we didn’t do that. The benefit didn’t outweigh the cost. I would say if you decide beforehand on naming, and what you want to monitor, and what thresholds you want to alert on, and who needs to be notified about what, it would help significantly.

The help I received from NETSAS in initial setup was plenty sufficient. If I ran into any issues, it was usually fixed by the end of the day. 

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