Comment by mypalmike
NMS systems are useful for monitoring large networks where something is likely to fail due to sheer quantity of devices/interfaces. Visualization is secondary to state capture and alerting.
NMS systems are useful for monitoring large networks where something is likely to fail due to sheer quantity of devices/interfaces. Visualization is secondary to state capture and alerting.
Yet they still market themselves as visualization systems. An open source/free NMS-first product like Zabbix or Nagios (and its successors) is plenty.