Purpose

Some customers NMIS/OMK environments are are comprised of many servers.  Leveraging the built in automation tools of NMIS and OMK modules will simply and standardize the deployment.

Domain Wide Standard NMIS/OMK Properties

Some NMIS/OMK configuration properties will be the same across servers in an administrative domain.  Some popular examples follow, but any setting that would be the same across all servers should be considered.

• Authentication methods
• Authentication server parameters
• Domain name
• Single sign on parameters
• Email server parameters
• Collection policy
• Threshold policy
• Syslog parameters
• Icons

Server Unique NMIS/OMK Properties

• NMIS host name
• NMIS server name
• OMKD hostname
• OMK module hostname

Standardization Script Example

This is an example script that will set some attributes statically and prompt the user for server unique attributes.  This script converts the nmis8/conf/Config.nmis and omk/conf/opCommon.nmis files into a perl hash.  Any attribute may be set in these configuration files with a script such as this.

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