Latest Version 99.0.0 Release Notes
Enigma NMS – Technical Architecture and System Overview

Please Note:
Enigma NMS is suitable for IT and IoT infrastructures of any size and complexity. All the following features are included in a single product license and can be deployed on a single server, whether it is bare metal, a virtual machine (VM) or a Cloud Deployment. However, to establish an optional High Availability Cluster, a second Enigma instance is necessary.
The list provided below is only a summary of features.

Summary of Features:

  • IT and IoT Infrastructure Discovery: Automated, Scheduled, and On-Demand.
  • Asset Management: Unlimited custom fields.
  • SNMP V3: Full implementation throughout the product.
  • Multi-Tenant, Multi-User, Multi-Vendor functionality.
  • High Availability Cluster: Provides 100% business continuity and can also be used as a server migration tool.
  • Polling every 60 seconds: Highly detailed graphs with custom resolution and layout.
  • Data granularity fully preserved without roll-up for up to 5 years: No averaging or aggregation.
  • Distributed Polling Architecture: Enigma Central <-> Enigma Remotes. Single pane of glass. Suitable for very large distributed deployments with overlapping private IP ranges. Scales to over 100,000 nodes and 50,000,000 ports.
  • Availability Monitor (including DHCP-enabled Nodes): Custom SLA and Alarm Delay Templates.
  • Network Performance Monitor:
    • CPU Utilization
    • Memory Utilization
    • Temperature Readings: Multiple sensors
    • Ping Round Trip Response
    • Errors
    • Discards
    • Packet Loss
    • Queue Drops
    • QoS Class Utilization
    • QoS Class Drops
    • Broadcasts
    • Traffic Utilization (Bits/Packets per sec)
  • Environment Monitor / ANY OID, Monitoring anything within SNMP MIB:
    • Auto-Discovery of all OIDs with Static or Dynamic Indexes.
    • MIB Table and OID Templates, Threshold Alerting, Integers or Strings.
    • UPS Battery Status and Time Remaining.
    • Temperature Sensors.
    • Voltage and Current.
    • Storage Utilization.
    • Radio Signal Strength.
    • ANY OID discovered and monitored in your entire OT and IoT environments in minutes!
  • Server Monitor:
    • Hardware Composition.
    • CPU Utilization.
    • Memory Utilization.
    • File System Utilization.
    • Installed Software.
    • Monitoring of Running Processes.
  • Application Monitor:
    • Network Daemons.
    • Database Statuses.
    • Web Resources Content and Response Time Monitoring.
    • API Endpoints.
  • Traffic Volume Monitor: Daily Utilizations and Traffic Volumes: All Hours, Business Hours (B.H.), and After Hours (A.H.).
  • Exceptions-Based Performance Reporting and Trending: Custom thresholds and optional alerting.
  • Port Monitor: Auto-detection and monitoring of Layer 2 and Layer 3 trunks.
  • CDP and LLDP Monitor: View all CDP and LLDP peers across the entire network domain.
  • Device Locator: By MAC, IP Address, and NETBIOS Name.
  • Visibility of All Network-Connected Clients: Preserves information about disconnected MACs forever.
  • Root-Cause Analysis with alert suppression.
  • Visibility of All VLANs, VTP and MSTP Domains, IP ARP and Routing Tables.
  • Dynamic Physical Topology Maps.
  • Google Maps Integration: Shows sites topology, data services, and outages in real time.
  • Live Floor Maps: Load your Site and Floor Maps (Unlimited) and pin down your nodes.
  • Wireless Monitor: Auto-discovered WLC, LWAP, WLAN – VLAN Mapping, Mobile Clients.
  • VM Monitor: Auto-discovered VM Hosts, VM Guests, Resource utilization.
  • Asset Manager: All Hardware and Software modules on all managed devices, history.
  • IP Address Manager: Multiple IPv4 and IPv6 Domains.
  • Traffic Analyzer: All versions of NetFlow and sFlow, unlimited sources, zero maintenance.
  • IP SLA Monitor: Unlimited probes, zero maintenance.
  • VRF Monitor: VRFs, Interfaces memberships, Routing, TE Tunnels.
  • SYSLOG Monitor: Top talkers, customizable matching patterns, actions, and alerts.
  • SNMP Trap Monitor: Top talkers, customizable matching patterns, actions, and alerts.
  • User Activity Monitor: Visibility of all commands entered via CLI across your entire network.
  • Real-Time Monitor: 1-second traffic utilization stats on up to 25 interfaces.
  • Routing Monitor (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP): Detection of incorrect configuration and flapping links.
  • Configuration Manager: Vendor independent, auto config downloads, and scheduled config changes on multiple devices.
  • SNMP Browser.
  • Hardware Management: Tracking of composition changes and various End-of-Date attributes monitoring.
  • Maintenance Contracts and SSL Certificates Monitor: Proactive notifications on contract expiration.
  • Flexible Favorites and Custom Reports: Any view or report in the system can be saved as a favorite for quick access or scheduled execution.
  • Report Exporter: Any report or view in the system can be easily exported as PDF or CSV.
  • Report Scheduler: Any custom or favorite report can be scheduled to be executed, with results saved as HTML, PDF, or CSV, and attached to an email.
  • Data Services (Telco) Management:
    • Overlays of all Data Services over your network infrastructure.
    • Unlimited Custom Attributes.
    • Tracking Telco Provider Quality of Service.
    • Reduces Outage Restoration Time.
    • Optimizes your Telco Infrastructure.
    • Bulk Actions.
  • Telco Bill Validation: Minimizes data services expenses.
  • Incident and Change Management.
  • Intrusion Detection Monitor.
  • Cisco NBAR Monitor.
  • Intuitive Alert Storm Control.
  • Alerts with optional custom content.
  • Alerts Forwarding: Northbound integration via the generation of custom SYSLOG, SNMP Traps, Email, and API Templates with custom content to multiple external Service Desk systems (e.g., Splunk On-Call, PagerDuty, Tivoli OMNIbus, HP Service Now, ITSM, etc.).
  • Flexible REST API Services: Southbound integration with Client Portals and Service Desk systems via comprehensive REST API Services, extraction of any data including graphs.
  • Integration with LDAP, DNS, NTP, SMTP, TACACS, SMS.

Following are examples of operational challenges that network managers may face on a daily basis. Enigma NMS can provide quick answers to all of the following questions and many more:

  • How many network nodes are in my network, and who are the vendors?
  • What hardware models do I have in my network?
  • What hardware modules are installed in all my network devices?
  • What is my network’s physical and logical topology?
  • What IOS versions are in my network, and where are they located?
  • What maintenance contracts do I have, and when do they expire so I can renew them on time?
  • How many IP subnets are in my network, where are they located, which subnet can I use next, and are there enough free IP addresses for new client machines?
  • 30 network switches went down 10 minutes ago at our data center—what node is to blame (root cause)?
  • What Microsoft products are installed on all my PCs?
  • Are any of my application servers running out of memory or disk space?
  • I want to monitor all my databases, web servers, and business-critical web applications.
  • How many TenGigabit links do I have, and where are they?
  • Do I have any duplicate IP addresses, and where are they?
  • How many VLANs and VTP domains are there, where are they located, and what nodes/interfaces belong to a particular VLAN?
  • How many physical trunks exist, and where are they? I want my NMS to monitor them automatically.
  • How many physical trunks went down today, last week, or last month, and for how long? Are they connected to WAN carriage?
  • What are the busiest links, and which links are showing errors or discarding packets?
  • Are there any links with a duplex mismatch that could cause severe performance degradation?
  • Our users are complaining about slow application response—can I quickly identify if there is anything wrong with my network, or do they need to talk to our application support staff?
  • What is my network availability monthly, weekly, and daily, and what is the availability trend?
  • How many outages occurred in my network, and what was the reason for the outages?
  • Which outages were caused by power failures?
  • I want to know the maximum traffic utilization on gigabit access ports in my network.
  • What are my engineers doing on network devices in real time?
  • What are the top sources of Syslog messages and SNMP traps?
  • Are there any failed fans or power supplies in equipment across my entire enterprise network domain?
  • What is the yearly trend in my network availability—is my network becoming more or less stable?
  • I want to see all SLAs applied to all my network devices.
  • What Telco services are being used in my WAN, and to what nodes/interfaces are they connected?
  • Which client devices, such as printers, servers, workstations, etc., are connected to my network, and what are their names?
  • If I take down a particular network node for maintenance, how many network clients will be affected, and what are they?
  • What traffic is traversing my network and possibly causing congestion?
  • What are the top talkers and applications consuming my WAN bandwidth? Is it all legitimate traffic? Who is accessing what on the internet, and when?
  • What is the latency across my network?
  • We need to roll out a new application—do we have enough bandwidth capacity for it?
  • The new application requires five new servers with gigabit NICs—do we have enough network port capacity in our data center?
  • How can I add or change access lists on 500 network devices without having to ssh into each device?
  • How many devices rebooted last night, and why?
  • At a remote site, I need to provide network connectivity for ten additional staff members—do I have enough network ports at this location?
  • What is the status of my UPS? Are the batteries still in good condition, or do they need replacement?
  • Cisco TAC has sent me a critical bug notice—how can I quickly identify network nodes that need an IOS upgrade?
  • Are there any multicast (video) streams in my network, and where are they coming from? If one of my IP video cameras goes off the air, can I quickly find it?
  • What spare network equipment do I have, and where is it? Do I have enough spares to support my entire network infrastructure?
  • Have the configs on my network devices been changed yesterday, last week, or last month? Who made the change, and when?
  • Have all my network device configs been backed up?
  • My core switch went down last night—why? What was the state of this device at the time of the failure, and what is the most probable cause?
  • Can I suppress all alarms from affected nodes during scheduled maintenance?
  • One of my application servers died Friday night and was not discovered until Monday—where is it connected to the network? I want to receive an alert next time this happens.
  • What Cisco hardware is visible on the network that is not in my management database?
  • How many Cisco IP phones are there, where are they, and what are the extension numbers and usernames?
  • We have purchased a new voice-grade WAN link to overseas—can I monitor that the carriage provider is giving me the relevant quality of service?
  • Are there any unauthorized wireless devices that could pose a security risk, and how long have they been connected to the network?
  • I would like only HP, Cisco, and 3COM network devices to be discovered and added to the database.