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Similarly, if you have a firewall on your server (e.g. iptables) you need to make sure that it accepts incoming HTTP (possibly HTTPS) connections, and SNMP traps and Syslog connections/packets. This involves incoming connections to TCP ports 80 and 443, and UDP ports 161, 162 and 514.
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Now, fire up your favourite Web browser and surf to your server. The primary url for NMIS is
http://<yourhostname-or-ip>/nmis8/, and that page shows both a link to the NMIS dashboard and the online NMIS documentation.Check the NMIS Dashboard. If the web server is running but you can't access the GUI check your firewall; some Linux distributions do ship with a firewall enabled by default (e.g. RedHat 7) so a quick sudo iptables -n -L is recommended to verify the firewall status.
After authenting you should see the dashboard in all its glory, likely overlapped by the "Basic Setup" helper panel if this is an NMIS installation from scratch.
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