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Key Features and Functionality: - Automatic Network Discovery: Automatically detects and adds new devices, reducing manual setup. - Customizable Alerts & Notifications: Alerts via email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, and more. - API Access: A full API to manage, graph, and retrieve data from your install. - Billing System: Generate bandwidth bills for ports on your network based on usage or transfer. - Automatic Updates: Stay up-to-date automatically with bug fixes, new features, and more. - Distributed Polling: Horizontal scaling to grow with your network. - Mobile-Friendly Web UI: Access network monitoring data on the go. - Integration Support: Integrates with tools like NfSen, collectd, SmokePing, RANCID, and Oxidized. - Multiple Authentication Methods: Supports MySQL, HTTP, LDAP, Radius, and Active Directory. Primary Value and Problem Solved: LibreNMS enhances network visibility and performance by providing comprehensive monitoring and alerting capabilities. It enables proactive issue detection, reducing downtime and improving operational efficiency. As a free and open-source solution, it offers a cost-effective alternative to proprietary network monitoring tools, making it accessible for organizations of all sizes. 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