I was looking more into the AI feature of NetXMS 6 and noticed a distinction between Assistant and Agent


Starting from NetXMS v6, MCP and AI assistant capabilities are provided in the open-source version. The AI agent module is available only as part of the NetXMS Enterprise Edition.


Could you clarify what the difference is and why one should be considered above the other

Open-Source AI Assistant includes the following skills: data-collection, event-processing, inventory, maintenance, incident-analysis, log-analysis, device-backup with approx 70 functions.

Enterprise stuff is accessible via the same AI Assistant and adds a few more skills: network-topology, nxsl (script library + compile/execute), scheduler-management, asset-management, file-management, ssh, file operations via agent and a few more for ATM/banking switch monitoring. scheduler-management allows things like "check this node's DCI values in the morning", etc.

Also things are dynamic here and changes / new skills may be added.

Here's the current list of open-source AI Assistant features:

  Top-level functions:
  - alarm-list — active alarms
  - clear-notification-queue
  - explain-object-status
  - find-objects (name/IP/class/parent/zone)
  - get-notification-channels
  - get-object
  - get-object-ai-data / set-object-ai-data / list-object-ai-data-keys / remove-object-ai-data — persistent per-object AI memory
  - send-notification
  - server-stats
  - snmp-read / snmp-walk

  Skill: data-collection
  - create-metric / edit-metric / delete-metric / get-metric-details / get-metrics
  - get-historical-data (with aggregation)
  - get-thresholds / get-object-thresholds / add-threshold / edit-threshold / delete-threshold

  Skill: event-processing
  - create-event-template / modify-event-template / delete-event-template / get-event-template
  - get-event-processing-policy
  - get-event-processing-action / get-event-processing-actions

  Skill: inventory
  - get-node-hardware-components
  - get-node-interfaces
  - get-node-software-packages

  Skill: maintenance
  - start-maintenance / end-maintenance

  Skill: incident-analysis
  - get-incident-details / get-open-incidents / get-incident-history
  - get-incident-related-events / get-incident-topology-context
  - add-incident-comment
  - link-alarm-to-incident / link-alarms-to-incident
  - assign-incident / suggest-incident-assignee
  - create-incident / create-incident-from-alarms

  Skill: log-analysis
  - list-logs / get-log-schema / search-log
  - search-syslog / search-windows-events / search-snmp-traps / search-events
  - get-log-statistics
  - correlate-logs (cross-source, with L2 neighbors)
  - analyze-log-patterns (frequency/burst/recurring/new)

  Skill: device-backup
  - get-backup-status / get-backup-list / get-backup-content
  - start-backup
  - compare-backups

Filipp,

Thank you for the detailed explanation. I appreciate it