System information

Contacts

You can add, edit and delete entries to the NMIS Contacts table. Allows information to be stored about

contacts for the network. Links to sysContact.

Event Policy

You can add, edit and delete entries to the NMIS Event Policy table. This controls how events are

processed by NMIS, what event level each node type and role type will generate and weather or not it

will send alerts.

Escalation Policy

You can add, edit and delete entries to the NMIS Escalation Policy table. This controls how events are

escalated by NMIS, what each node type and role type will generate and weather or not and how it will

escalate unacknowledged events.

The IP tool allows you to view and calculate IP addressing information for IP subnetting. Handy if you

are wondering what the broadcast address is for IP address 10.24.51.193 mask 255.255.255.224

Draw Graph

Draw graph is a subroutine used by NMIS to produce graphs, you can embed this in any HTML you like

and can be used to allow distributed access, just to a view HTML source on one of the web pages to

see how. Basically you call it like this:

<img border="0" alt="Device Health"

src="http://nmis_server/cgi-nmis/nmiscgi.pl?file=nmis.conf&type=drawgraph&

node=c1000&graph=health&length=2days&start=0&end=0&width=500&height=100">

Where:

file is nmis config file defaults to nmis.conf

type must be "drawgraph"

node is the node name

graph can be health, cpu, memory, interface, etc.

length is AT style, ie 2days, 1day, 2hours, etc.

start and end default to 0 but you can start x seconds ago and end y seconds ago.

height and width are the requested size of the image, which will actually be the size of the graph

not the resulting image.

metrics.pl

This NMIS CGI script displays a simple metric table, handy for keeping visible somewhere like an active

desktop.

map.pl

This displays a map and icons of each configured group. You edit the map.csv to control this. You

should create and entry for each Group and find a suitable Map background icon. The colors represent

the status, etc.

This is intended to put up on a screen for "at a glance" checking on the network. Handy for a basic

NOC monitoring function, ie colored icons change to represent the problem and you can drill in.

NMIS - Network Management Information System http://www.sins.com.au/nmis/

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