System information

The following is a list of NMIS features. This is by no means comprehensive but provides and idea of what
NMIS can do.
General
The entire network is summarised into a single metric, which indicates reachability, availability and
health of all network devices being managed by NMIS.
Summary page for entire network with reachability, availability, health, response time metrics.
Summary pages of devices including device information, health graph, and interface summary.
Can be distributed across multiple "polling servers" by using included programs.
Policy based event and escalation.
Performance and Fault
Integrated Fault and Performance Management.
Color coded events, status for at a glance interpretation.
Graphing of Interface, CPU, Memory stats for Cisco Routers and Switches.
Graphs can be drilled into.
Graphs produced on the fly.
Graphs can have varying lengths from 2hours to 1 year.
Interface statistics are returned in Utilisation and/or bits per second.
Response time graphed and metrics for health and availability generated from statistics collected.
Threshold engine which send alerts on certain thresholds.
Escalation subsystem based on device groups which provides a great deal of granularity.
Varying event levels for different device types.
Alert events are issued for device down or interface down.
Event levels are set according to how important the device is.
Events are "State full" including thresholds, meaning that an event is only issued once.
Notification engine can be expanded to handle any "command line" notification method, including
email, paging, signs, speakers, etc.
Integrated logging facility to view NMIS events and syslog messages.
A list of current events is available and there is an escalation level and time the event has been active.
Event logging
Outage time calculated for each down event
Planned outages can be put in so alerts are not issued
Configuration
Find function which searches interface information for node name, interface name, description, type,
IP address, for matching interfaces.
Interface information includes IP address information.
Dynamic handling of ifIndex changes and difficult SNMP interface handling
Checking of changes to device details.
NMIS stores contacts and location information which links to the SNMP sysContact and sysLocation
MIBS.
Produces DNS and Host records from the collected IP addressing information
Produces DNS LOC records for "visible" traceroute utilities.
Reporting
Reports for utilisation, outages, etc
Snapshot and dynamic reporting for metrics on all devices and groups of devices.
NMIS - Change Log
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