Architect your solution, determine initial configuration/setup, create processes for deployment and rollback.
Identify Your Products and Solutions
- NMIS - Deep visibility of an IT environment, providing valuable information about infrastructure performance and faults.
- ICMP/Ping
- SNMP Collection
- SNMPTraps
- WMI Collection
- Service Monitoring (DNS/NTP/etc.)
- Application Monitoring
- opHA - Scale your solution horizontally and add high availability to ensure business continuity.
- Open-AudIT - Agentless device discovery and auditing
- Device Baselining
- File/Folder Change Monitoring
- Software License Usage
- opCharts - Delivers interactive charts, custom dashboards, and network diagrams.
- opEvents - Event Management processing Syslog, SNMP trap, NMIS events, and others.
- Syslog Parsing
- SNMPTraps
- opConfig - Provides configuration backup, archiving, and change detection.
- Configuration Backup
- Compliance Monitoring
- opTrend - Identify abnormal behavior and predict resource exhaustion before it happens.
- opReports - Detailed, actionable engineering and business-related reports
- opFlow//wiki/spaces/OMK/pages/3163619772 - NetFlow and IP-Fix analysis for enterprise-class businesses and service providers
System Architecture
Server Sizing
Server sizing is both an art and a science. However, there is a good bit of math to throw in there when determining minimum storage requirements.
Planning Deployment
Configuration
Common files and directory structures
NMIS
- /usr/local/nmis8/conf
- /usr/local/nmis8/Config.nmis
Open-AudIT, all OMK Modules
- /usr/local/omk/conf
- /usr/local/omk/opCommon.nmis
Thoughts
- Who will select the initial configurations for each product
- Who will manage/maintain product configurations
- How will product configurations be maintained across multiple servers
Product Upgrades
Opmantek uses an Agile development methodology in product development and releases several product updates every quarter. It is up to you as to how often these updates are installed, but we recommend at least a semiannual, if not quarterly basis in order to obtain the most recent features and bug fixes.
If you have started with the Opmantek Virtual Machine (VM) you should check the vm's /omk page for upgrade availability.
- Installer Options: The Opmantek Installer
- Download Product Updates: https://opmantek.com/network-management-download/
Server Maintenance
Product Upgrades only affect Opmantek products, and any components directly required. It does NOT update or patch the server OS, or third party applications like Apache or Mongo DB. You should make arrangements with your IT or server support team to manage server patching in accordance with your company's guidelines and expectations.
Next Up
Implement - Execute your plan, test, and validate the deployment.