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see what it can do.
NMIS is released as GPL
software, please ensure that you read the license as by using this software you are
bound by it.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
NMIS 2.00 is available NOW!
NOTE: Lots of NMIS has been deprecated! Things that I wanted to do have been done, code
simplified, filenames changed and lots of things. This has been done to improve and simplify
NMIS but will be that if you have an existing NMIS running you will need to implement the new
NMIS carefully.
NOTE: FOR ANYONE UPGRADING TO NMIS 2.0 ENSURE YOU CHECK ALL CONFIG ITEMS.
NOTE: Changes now tracked in the Change Log.
With all the changes NMIS appears to be HEAPS faster!
Many new config options and configuration items exist.
Configuration validation routine for ensuring that NMIS is configured properly.
Updated whole bunches of nmiscgi.pl, updated the style and revamped it a little bit, looks a bit better
now.
Updated logs.pl with a better parsing algorithm, handles the weird messages in syslog which routers and
switches send.
Added map.pl which enables NMIS to display group status colored icons for each group on a HTML map
using CSS. Icons will change color with group status, also display summary network metrics and allows
drill in to NMIS for each group. (not auto-discovery or drag and drop). Adds a bunch of config.dat
elements and requires setting up map.csv with icon placement co-ordinates.
Added summary.pl which is a very basic NMIS CGI interface for WAP and Palm type devices or low
bandwidth connections.
Sample Screens - these "screen shots" are output from a production system but edited to protect the
innocent. Some of the hyperlinks have been removed. A real system would have many hyperlinks to itself.
NMIS has had many updates and changes since this sample was produced but this is still representative of
what NMIS looks like and does.
Contributors -
NMIS development has been assisted by (in no particular order): Wade Miller, Russell Miller,
Richard Kuehnle, Brian M Estep, Gary Veum, Dave Packham and Stephane Monnier
Contributions - NMIS was orginally developed by Keith Sinclair, since then quite a few people have
contributed to its development. If you are interested in contributing to the development you are most welcome
to just send your code, ideas, suggestions to the User Group.
User Group - To assist in keeping interested parties in sync I have created a NMIS user group on Yahoo
Groups.
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URL for the user group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nmis_users
NMIS - Network Management Information System http://www.sins.com.au/nmis/
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