OpenText Network Node Manager Reviews

We use the product monitoring network infrastructure, interfaces, and devices.

The most valuable feature is the map topology. We can map CIs by node and present them along with devices.

Our company uses the solution to manage all nodes, switches, routers, firewalls, cameras, and IoT, WAPs, IP phones, and many more. It completely manages all of our endpoints and network devices. 

The solution tells us when a link goes down or when a device goes offline. For example, we have thousands of cameras and can quickly see when one goes offline on the NNMi. It uses ICMP and SNMP to pull data from that device to report that it is offline. Fault and performance monitoring and reporting of all nodes in the Infra. 

We also use the solution for our topology. From there, we can see the map of how all devices are interconnected to one another.  

Throughout our company, we have ten to twenty network-supporting engineers and managers who use the solution.

The best feature is the solution's entire credibility with all vendors. When we bring in a Cisco device, the solution has a way of changing its own capabilities to adapt to the Cisco environment. A Moxa device sees the solution as Moxa. When we connect HP devices, the solution is immediately able to manage a 3rd-vendor device in far better ways than Cisco Prime or a Cisco monitoring device. We can easily manage any vendor including Fortinet, Aruba, and Cisco. So the solution is a very good device for network operations management, monitoring, and reporting.

The solution allows for much more modifications or human interventions than the Cisco brand. It gives more room for customization compared to other monitoring servers out there.

We're working on fault, availability and performance. We have iSPI on the network for metrics and traffic.

The stability can be improved.

Our monitoring and network teams of less than 100 people use this solution. The availability and fault monitoring are good.

Micro Focus Network Node Manager is not the best when it comes to drilling down for more visibility, especially regarding traffic.

Performance and analysis need to be improved as well.

You need a special team to work on this product, and not everyone can use it.

We install, integrate, customize and configure this solution for our clients. We are system integrators who resell tools to our customers and we are partners with Micro Focus. 

The great thing about this solution is its compatibility for enterprise level organizations. If you need to install 10,000 or even 20,000 devices, it's easy to monitor. The product's fault management is awesome. 

We are using virtual servers. We have two servers, they are set in fail-over environments. One is active, one is waiting.

I work for a very big enterprise. Any employee could technically access this tool, but only a few of them are interested. Roughly 50 people working in specific departments access this tool — mostly the network operations team.

Currently, we are not using all of the features they provide; just the main tool for monitoring the alerts. The lists are sent to a third-party tool — ServiceNow. It's an umbrella that collects alerts from different tools.

We are using the solution for network monitoring.

We had some issues with some of the features, some modules are not meeting expectations. Additionally, they need to start following some of the latest trends.