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  • The individual performing this installation has some Linux experience.
  • NMIS8 is installed on the same server where opMaps will be installed
  • NMIS8 is installed in /usr/local/nmis8
  • opMaps is installed into /usr/local/opmantek
  • Root access is available (not always needed but much easier)
  • Perl 5.10 
  • RRDtool 1.4.7

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Create Map File

After installing opMaps, you will need to set up the GroupLocations.nmis so opMaps can display a geographic map of your NMIS status.

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cd /usr/local/opmantek/bin/
./configmaps.pl /usr/local/nmis8/conf/Nodes.nmis /usr/local/opmantek/conf/GroupLocations.nmis

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Configure Map File

After creating GroupLocations.nmis, you may edit the file in the directory /usr/local/opmantek/conf/

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vi /usr/local/opmantek/conf/GroupLocations.nmis

The following text is an example of what a GroupLocations.nmis file might look like

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%hash = (
 'NMIS8' => {
 'Customer' => 'Opmantek',
 'Location' => 'Bundall, Queensland',
 'Group' => 'NMIS8'
 }
);

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