System information

The nodes.dat file lists all the devices you want to manage, this is a CSV file where each line
defines node,community,net,type,role,group,collect.
Where:
node = The Node
community = SNMP Community String
net = Network Type lan or wan
node type = switch or router
role = core, distribution or access
group = Nominal Location Group or the like
collect = true,false do or don't do stats collection
Populating the Locations and Contacts Tables
In the directory <nmis base dir>/conf/ copy the locations-sample.csv and contacts-sample.csv to
locations.csv and contacts.csv respectively. The edit these files and create entries for each
Contact and Location in your network, the files are TAB delimited so you can use comma's in
the data fields. This will be linked to the device SNMP sysLocation and sysContact, so NMIS will
allow you to lookup this information dynamically.
Change the default location and contact parameters especially the default contact emails
address to whatever you want the notifications to go.
Configuring NMIS with the nmis.conf file.
If you are opting for a default install directories then you shouldn't have to change much. The
default directory is /usr/local/nmis and the only thing you might choose to do is to put the
database files somewhere else ie /bigfilesystem/nmis/database for example.
Some entries you will have to change are :
domain=sins.com.au.
nmis_host=www.sins.com.au
Some entries you might like to change are :
dash_title=NMIS Dashboard
show_non_collected_interfaces=true
show_large_menu=true
Adding links to the links list
More on this later, working on generating a list of Point to Point Links automatically. This is
REAL close now.
Running NMIS
You can turn on debugging with debug=<true|false|0-9> for more information while running
NMIS.
NMIS - Network Management Information System http://www.sins.com.au/nmis/
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