WatchGuard Network Management beta is live!
Oct 1 - Nov 5, 2026

Welcome, and thank you for joining. You are the first group outside WatchGuard to run Network Management on a real network, and what you tell us over the next few weeks decides what ships.

Network Management gives you a live view of a customer’s whole network, not just their Fireboxes. A collector discovers the devices on the network, switches, routers, access points, servers, hypervisors, printers and clients alongside your Fireboxes - works out how they connect to each other, polls them over SNMP for health and performance, and raises alerts when something changes. Service Providers get a roll-up across every subscriber account, and each subscriber sees their own locations, topology, alerts and asset inventory.

Setup is three steps: add a location, add credentials, add a collector.

What’s in the beta

• Discovery : automatic device discovery, with controls for scan rate, recursive discovery, and which networks to scan
• Topology : a map built automatically from what’s discovered, with vendor, model, performance, uptime and per-port connections on each node
• Monitoring : CPU, memory, disk, throughput, availability, ping latency, packet loss and interface link state
• Alerting : 10 default alert rules out of the box, custom rules scoped by location and asset type, and alerts that close themselves when the condition clears
• Assets : full inventory with health, IP, MAC and last poll, exportable to CSV
• Service Provider view : multi-tenant roll-up with drill-down into any subscriber account
• Maintenance windows : suppress alerting per location or per asset while you work
• Executive Summary report : a customer-ready summary of the estate

Add a location, add your SNMP credentials, add the collector. Credentials that are already in place get used on the first discovery pass, which gives you a named, vendor-identified inventory and a linked topology map from the start.