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Getting Started with TowerOps

TowerOps is a network monitoring platform that helps you keep track of your network devices, monitor their health, and get alerts when issues occur.

Your dashboard carries a Setup Progress checklist. The required rows count toward completion and the optional rows stay open without blocking it; the rows below are the same rows, in the same order, with the same required or optional flag the checklist shows.

  • Account created Required
  • Confirm your email Required
  • Connect your network Optional
  • Add devices Required
  • Review discovered devices Optional
  • Get alerted Required
  • Invite your team Required from the Members tab
  • Back up device configurations Optional
  • Import devices from UISP, NetBox, or cnMaestro Optional
  • Pair the mobile app for alerts on your phone Optional
  • Create sites to organize devices Optional
  • Turn on automatic device discovery Optional

Already running LibreNMS, The Dude or Zabbix? Import your existing device list instead of retyping it.

Find Your Way Around

  • Monitor: Start with Alerts and NOC overview for current problems, then explore devices, sites, maps, and Sector Health for deployed wireless health. Fleet tracks asset and firmware health when enabled.
  • Respond: Use Trace to troubleshoot, Subscribers and Communications for customer support when permitted, then On-Call and Maintenance to coordinate work.
  • Analyze: Review actionable Insights, recent Activity, and Reports.
  • Planning: Use Capacity to identify upgrade needs and room to grow, then RF Planner to design network changes. Planning is separate from live Sector Health monitoring.

The desktop sidebar and mobile menu use the same order. Organization settings and switching remain at the bottom.

Quick Start Guide

Create a Site (Optional)

Sites represent physical or logical locations where your network devices are located. If you manage multiple locations, start by creating a site for your office, data center, or any location where you have equipment.

Navigate to Sites → New Site

Sites are disabled by default and can be enabled later in Organization Settings → General tab, under Site Organization. The Sites page appears once sites are enabled.

Add Your First Device

Add network devices like routers, switches, access points, or servers. Give each device a name and its IP address, then fill in the SNMP details for SNMP-enabled hardware; the community string can be left blank to inherit the site or organization default.

Navigate to Devices → New Device

View Device Metrics

Click on any device to see its details: system information, uptime, overall traffic charts, CPU load, and its SNMP sensors. The tabs across the top open Ports, Checks, and Events, plus device-specific views, Neighbors, ARP and MAC tables, VLANs, IP addresses, wireless clients, transceivers, hardware inventory, and configuration backups, as the device reports them.

Pro Tip

For devices behind firewalls or in remote locations, you can deploy an agent to monitor devices locally without exposing them to the internet. See the Agents section for more information.

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