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  • The OpenNMS home page
• HOWTOs
  • XMPP Notification
  • LDAP Authentication

While the default behaviour of the OpenNMS service is to authenticate users against it's own PostgreSQL database, it can be configured to authenticate users against an LDAP DSA and load role information from the LDAP Dit. While users must still be defined within the service's database this facilitates more centralized administration and eases password management for users.

OpenNMS is a sophisticated and feature rich enterprise ready network monitoring solution (NMS). OpenNMS will monitor your systems via SNMP for performance information as well as availability by performing actual service requests such as HTTP requests. One of the most important features of any NMS is the ability to notify administrators when something has gone wrong either by e-mail, page, or some other means. OpenNMS supports a variety of notification methods (and you can add your own), and since version 1.2.1 this includes XMPP (aka "Jabber").