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NMIS - Network Management Information SystemLast updated 25 February 2002 NMIS HomeTable of ContentsIntroductionAnnouncementsSample ScreensFAQLatest C

FAQ IntroductionThis FAQ is built from the combined musings of the many good folks on the NMIS Userhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/nmis_users mailing li

Q. How do I add mibs to NMIS?A. You need to edit the loadmibs.pl script, put the names of the mibs into the script and generate the OIDfiles. Not str

Q. What does SNMP Simple do ?A. SNMP Simple is a set of Perl 5 modules that perform SNMP access requests. They written by SimonLeinen [email protected].

Q. Why Don't ping and traceroute work?NMIS was written on Solaris so until version 2.2 is finalised there are some hard-coded file locations youm

The following is a list of NMIS features. This is by no means comprehensive but provides and idea of whatNMIS can do.GeneralThe entire network is sum

Last updated 21 June 2001 Online Version NMIS Home PageChangesLOTS of tidy up in general.Stopped loading MIBS all the time.NMIS support multiple confi

Now using "auto directory finding option" so don't have to edit scripts as much on install, usesPerl FindBin.Many new config.dat option

Improved support for the Cisco Catalyst IOS switches, not really tested.NMIS Large Dash now has a config option.NMIS and nmiscgi.pl now uses embedded

Fixed up SNMPv2 Support, now getNodeInfo tests for SNMPv2 support and then if availablecaches as part of system attributes.Added more MIBs to the OID

Below is a sample configuration for Apache to implement IP address and user name security. Its prettystraight forward. To produce this configuration

see what it can do.NMIS is released as GPL software, please ensure that you read the license as by using this software you arebound by it.ANNOUNCEMENT

NMIS Location Setup<Location "/cgi-nmis/nmiscgi.pl"> ## For IP address based permissions Order deny,allow deny fr

IntroductionNMIS stands for Network Management Information System. It is a Network Management System whichperforms multiple functions from the OSI Ne

when the interface is supposed to be up, raise an event. Otherwise store ifOperStatus, ifInOctets andifOutOctets in an RRD, adding ifOperStatus to th

InterfacesInterfaces which aren't in use should be shutdown (admin down) so that NMIS doesn't think it issupposed to manage them. A simple

FindAllows you to search the NMIS data for all interfaces with the keywords in IP address, description,interface name, subnet mask. This is a simple

ContactsYou can add, edit and delete entries to the NMIS Contacts table. Allows information to be stored aboutcontacts for the network. Links to sys

view.plThis allow NMIS to view and edit the CSV files used to control NMIS.summary.plThis produces a VERY basic summary of the NMIS for group and node

Collection PolicyCreate a CSV with interface types and node types and some flags for defining the collection policy for devices.ifType device_type rol

Create RRDI had been thinking about making this config options and putting the formulas in the code.NMIS Command Linesimple script to provide status o

Greetings, I have experienced odd behavior in graphs if a link/router goes downunexpectedly. I'm not sure exactly why, but when you view the

Supported Platforms - NMIS is written in Perl so theoretically if your toaster runs Perl and has an IP address itcan run NMIS. Nearly all the develop

I had the same behavior, your fix seemed to make it work right.BTW I made some other hacks on the nmis I like to share:1-Multithread collection and up

--- view.pl 2001/06/23 01:35:28 1.1+++ view.pl 2001/10/11 15:21:22 1.2@@ -75,6 +75,31 @@ exit; +sub alphanumerically {+ local($&

DONESENDMAILPerl based sendmail for better mail control.DONEEnhanced SNMPv2cAdd support for the HC MIBS, in fact test and see if HC mibs are supported

DONEHardcoded script nameYep, that should be $ENV{SCRIPT_NAME} instead of /cgi-nmis/etc...KeithKeith,I am sure that you have seen this one already. I

DONE With Model support and a new model called Catalyst5000Sup3Catalyst SupportIf you are using 6000 series switches and you click on health statistic

sub runPing{ my $node = shift; my $retries = 3; my $sleep = 15; my $i; if ($debug) { print returnTime." Starti

Keith - I am thinking that in sub thresholdResponse, NMIS should keepthe level at 'normal' or 'level=1' for response times, rather

I believe I've found a couple of instances of hard-coded url paths incgi-bin/nmiscgi.pl and cgi-bin/logs.pl. Diff for nmiscgi.pl is:262c262<

DONE with model.csvgetNodeInfoelsif ( $NMIS::systemTable{sysDescr} =~ /sun/i and $NMIS::systemTable{nodeVendor} ne "Cisco Systems" ) {

General Public License applies to most of the Free SoftwareFoundation's software and to any other program whose authors commit tousing it. (Some

Required PackagesThe following packages and versions are what NMIS was built on, it is highly likely that other versions of thesame programs will work

2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portionof it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy anddistribute such modi

If distribution of executable or object code is made by offeringaccess to copy from a designated place, then offering equivalentaccess to copy the sou

address new problems or concerns.Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Programspecifies a version number of this License whic

Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) 19yy name of author Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'. Thi

InstallationThe packages listed in the required packages first following the instructions for each of these packages, some of these packages will have

For Solaris:groupadd -g 4200 nmis useradd -u 4200 -g nmis -c "NMIS User" nmis Setting the location of Perl in the scriptsSo that NMIS runs p

The nodes.dat file lists all the devices you want to manage, this is a CSV file where each linedefines node,community,net,type,role,group,collect.Wher

When run without debug, NMIS is silent, it will only report BAD things and log non fatals to theNMIS log -> nmis.log in the logs directory is the d

Log is a tool which allows viewing of the logs which NMIS and syslog generate. It color codesand allows searching, filtering of the log files.The con