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What is OpenNMS Meridian?
OpenNMS Meridian is a scalable open source network management platform with network traffic analysis, network discovery, alerting, and monitoring. It's presented as a solution to monitor enterprise network performance and ensure the availability and performance of critical network services.
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Essential
$42,000
On Premise
per year Up to 2 Meridian and cores Up to 25 Minions
Premier
$56,700
On Premise
per year Up to 4 Meridian cores and Up to 100 Minions
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Custom
On Premise
Entry-level set up fee?
- Setup fee optional
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- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Starting price (does not include set up fee)
- $42,000 per year
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What is OpenNMS Meridian?
OpenNMS Meridian is a scalable open source network management platform with network traffic analysis, network discovery, alerting, and monitoring. It's presented as a solution to monitor enterprise network performance and ensure the availability and performance of critical network services.
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OpenNMS Meridian Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Linux |
| Mobile Application | No |
Frequently Asked Questions
OpenNMS Meridian is a scalable open source network management platform with network traffic analysis, network discovery, alerting, and monitoring. It's presented as a solution to monitor enterprise network performance and ensure the availability and performance of critical network services.
OpenNMS Meridian starts at $42000.
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM), Auvik, and Prometheus are common alternatives for OpenNMS Meridian.
The most common users of OpenNMS Meridian are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Cost-effective solution: Several users have found OpenNMS to be a cost-effective solution as it offers a base package that can be downloaded for free. They appreciate the great price break and the ability to configure the software easily for their specific environment.
User-friendly GUI: Many reviewers praise the visually appealing and user-friendly graphical user interface of OpenNMS. They find it easy to navigate and straightforward to understand and configure. This positive experience with the GUI contributes to their overall satisfaction with the software.
Wide variety of add-ons: Users value OpenNMS's wide variety of add-ons, which allow them to collect information from various vendors and platforms. They specifically mention the ability to display collected information in an easily readable format, enabling quick assessment of network status.
High Network Traffic: Some users have expressed concern about the significant network traffic generated by OpenNMS, which can be problematic for networks with limited bandwidth.
Overwhelming Discovery Phase: Several reviewers have found the discovery phase of OpenNMS to be overwhelming due to the large number of servers discovered in their environment. They suggest that it would be better to limit the breadth of the discovery at the beginning to make it more manageable.
Challenges with Justifying Paid Support: Users who have downloaded and implemented OpenNMS for free have struggled to justify paid support to management. This presents a challenge when seeking additional assistance or advanced features from the vendor.
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April 30, 2021
Initially complicated but well worth the effort.
We use OpenNMS to monitor all aspects of our networks, identify issues and to alert us of any problems. The level of detail is great, and we can often spot and deal with potential issues before they actually manifest as a problem. When we do find ourselves with a network critical issue, OpenNMS alerts us within seconds and tells us where to look. Once you have everything running, you will wonder why you didn't do it sooner.
- Can monitor practically anything. Service availability, performance, latency, network interfaces, routing, hardware, and so on, and via different methods. If you need to monitor something on your network, you almost certainly can with OpenNMS.
- The OpenNMS web-based dashboard is very comprehensive and offers a ton of detail, covering everything you are monitoring. The ability to get a reassuring overview of the entire network is great, and to be able to whittle down the data to specifics, is a game changer.
- OpenNMS has a great online community, with a massive amount of support available via countless forums, blogs, YouTube, etc. If you get stuck on an issue, you'll find someone who's been there, done that, and detailed a resolution.
- Available free and open-source (with paid support and plans available for those who require it).
- It takes a fair amount of experimentation to fine tune information collection.
- Configuration can be quite cumbersome with a steep learning curve. It would be nice if more of this could be done via the web dashboard.
- The reliance on Java will put some users off. However, in fairness, it does mean it runs on a wide variety of hardware.
- Free and open-source.
- Ability to monitor practically any device or service on our networks.
- Comprehensive web based dashboard provides a wealth of information and ongoing 'health' check.
- Initial adoption required quite a lot of resources and time to get everything right. Totally worth it for us; just be prepared for a gradual process that will get better and better with time.
- Once setup and running smoothly, it provides us with all the reporting we could hope for, at near zero cost.
- With OpenNMS, we're able to offer a much more reliable service to our customers, and spend a lot less time dealing with issues.
Although Grafana is in no way an alternative to OpenNMS's full functionality, it can be integrated with other solutions (including OpenNMS itself) to offer the graphing and data visualisation aspects of OpenNMS. In this regard, Grafana is more flexible, and some would say prettier, than OpenNMS's graphing. For the best of both worlds, I'd recommend using them both!