# LibreNMS Docs

# What does LibreNMS Do?

• Automatic discovery
  • Automatically discover your entire network using CDP, FDP, LLDP, OSPF, BGP, SNMP and ARP.
• Customizable alerting
  • Highly flexible alerting system, notify via email, irc, slack 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.
• iPhone App
  • Native iPhone App is available which provides core functionality.
• Android App
  • Native Android App is available which provides core functionality..
• More...
  • Extensive device support
  • Mobile friendly Web UI
  • Unix Agent
• Integration support for
  • NfSen
  • collectd
  • SmokePing
  • RANCID
  • Oxidized
• Multiple authentication methods
  • MySQL
  • HTTP
  • LDAP
  • Radius
  • Active Directory