NetXMS Administrator Guide

Welcome to the NetXMS Administrator Guide.

This guide covers installation, configuration, and administration of NetXMS — an enterprise-grade network monitoring and management system developed by Raden Solutions.

Who This Guide is For

This guide is for system administrators who install, configure, and maintain NetXMS: setting up the server and agents, configuring data collection and event processing, and keeping the system healthy.

For day-to-day console usage — navigating views, working with alarms, running reports — see the User Guide. For scripting and automation with NXSL, see the NXSL Reference.

Where to Start

New to NetXMS?

Read What is NetXMS? and Architecture, then follow the Quick Start to get a working server with a few monitored nodes.

Installing for production?

Start with System Requirements and Database Setup, then follow the platform guide: Linux, Windows, or Docker Compose.

Upgrading an existing installation?

See Upgrading and check Breaking Changes Between Releases before you begin.

Looking up a specific setting?

Server settings are in Server Configuration Variables, file-based settings in the Configuration File Reference, and collectable metrics in the Agent Metrics reference.

How This Guide is Organized

Setting up the system

  • Getting Started — product overview, architecture, quick start tutorial, licensing

  • Installation & Upgrade — platform-specific installation, upgrades, migrations, mobile clients

  • Server Administration — server configuration, high availability, users and authentication, certificates, security, scheduling, backups

Building your monitoring environment

  • Network & Object Management — the object model, network discovery, zones, assets, topology, object tools, device configuration backup

  • Agent Management — agent configuration, tunnels, policies, proxies, subagents, software deployment

  • SNMP — SNMP credentials and drivers, MIB management, trap processing

  • Data Collection — DCIs, collection origins, thresholds, anomaly detection

  • Templates — reusable collection and policy configuration applied across many nodes

Processing and presenting monitoring data

  • Event Processing & Alarms — events, the Event Processing Policy, alarms, notifications, automatic actions

  • Monitoring Modules — per-technology monitoring guides: network services, operating systems, logs, applications and databases, hardware, industrial protocols, virtualization

  • Visualization & Dashboards — dashboards, graphs, network maps, geographical maps

  • Business Services & SLA — service-level modeling and availability tracking

  • AI Assistant — AI-assisted monitoring and administration

Connecting to other systems

  • Integration — REST API, Grafana, reporting, helpdesk systems, fanout drivers, NXShell

When something goes wrong

  • Troubleshooting — common issues, diagnostics, the server debug console

Looking things up

  • Reference — cron format, command-line tools, configuration files, server variables, agent metrics, breaking changes, glossary