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By default, an NMIS server operates in standalone mode (which is also poller mode), to have NMIS behave in a Primary fashionPrimary fashion, you will need to modify the configuration, so you can edit the NMIS Configuration item "severserver_Primary" using your favourite text editor, edit this line and change from "false" to "true".
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You can also use the admin script script /usr/local/nmis8/admin/grouplist.pl on the Primary to find and patch all groups used by all devices imported collected from the pollers.
Once opHA has succesfully successfully pulled/pushed the devices from poller to Primary you can analyse and patch the groups list by using the following.
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You can optionally have the NMIS polling cycle do the Primary collection, or you can run it separately from Cron. If you want to have it seperate separate which is a good option, change the following NMIS configuration item nmis_master_poll_cycle to be false in the file /usr/local/nmis8/conf/Config.nmis:
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