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NMIS 8.3.18G 24G is being released for general availability, This release provides many bug fixes and a few new features.
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#Backup current NMIS code and config including models DATE=`date "+%Y-%m-%d-%H%M"` cd /usr/local/nmis8 tar cvf ~/nmis8-backup-$DATE.tar ./admin ./bin ./cgi-bin ./conf ./install ./lib ./menu ./mibs ./models #Make sure NMIS is working before you patch it. /usr/local/nmis8/bin/nmis.pl type=collect debug=true node=<node to test> #Get CP working right. (no prompts) unalias cp #Unarchive the NMIS tarball cd ~ mkdir patch cd patch tar xvf ../nmis-8.3.18g24g.tar.gz # Patch the Code Base cp nmis8.3.24g/admin/* /usr/local/nmis8/admin cp nmis8.3.24g/bin/* /usr/local/nmis8/bin cp nmis8.3.24g/cgi-bin/* /usr/local/nmis8/cgi-bin cp -r nmis8.3.24g/install/* /usr/local/nmis8/install cp -r nmis8.3.24g/lib/* /usr/local/nmis8/lib cp -r nmis8.3.24g/menu/* /usr/local/nmis8/menu cp nmis8.3.24g/models-install/* /usr/local/nmis8/models |
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# copy newer configuration files (check that you don't have local changes to these files before running) cp /usr/local/nmis8/install/Tables.nmis /usr/local/nmis8/conf cp /usr/local/nmis8/install/Table-*.nmis /usr/local/nmis8/conf cp /usr/local/nmis8/install/Logs.nmis /usr/local/nmis8/conf cp /usr/local/nmis8/install/Users.nmis /usr/local/nmis8/conf cp /usr/local/nmis8/install/BusinessServicesServices.nmis /usr/local/nmis8/conf cp /usr/local/nmis8/install/ServiceStatusLicense.nmis /usr/local/nmis8/conf cp /usr/local/nmis8/install/ServicesModules.nmis /usr/local/nmis8/conf cp /usr/local/nmis8/install/LicenseEscalations.nmis /usr/local/nmis8/conf cp /usr/local/nmis8/install/ModulesPortal.nmis /usr/local/nmis8/conf cp /usr/local/nmis8/install/Escalationslogrotate.nmisconf /usr/local/nmis8/conf cp /usr/local/nmis8/install/Portal.nmis /users.dat /usr/local/nmis8/conf |
Update Server Configuration
Crontab
There are some updates to improve UI and polling synchronisation. Check the following configuration option for nmis_summary_poll_cycle, it should be set to false and the summary update added to the crontab.
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'nmis_summary_poll_cycle' => 'false', |
The new crontab which you generate by running this command /usr/local/nmis8/bin/nmis.pl type=crontab
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MAILTO=WhoeverYouAre@yourdomain.tld ###################################################### # NMIS8 Config ###################################################### # Run Statistics Collection */5 * * * * /usr/local/nmis8/bin/nmis.pl type=collect mthread=true maxthreads=10 ###################################################### # Run Summary Update every 2 minutes */2 * * * * /usr/local/nmis8/bin/nmis.pl type=summary ##################################################### # Run the interfaces 4 times an hour with Thresholding on!!! # if threshold_poll_cycle is set to false, then enable cron based thresholding #*/15 * * * * nice /usr/local/nmis8/bin/nmis.pl type=threshold mthread=true maxthreads=10 ###################################################### # Run the update once a day 30 20 * * * nice /usr/local/nmis8/conf cpbin/nmis.pl type=update mthread=true maxthreads=10 ###################################################### # Check to rotate the logs 4am every day UTC 5 20 * * * /usr/sbin/logrotate /usr/local/nmis8/installconf/logrotate.conf ################################################## # save this crontab every day 0 8 * * * crontab -l > /usr/local/nmis8/conf cp/crontab.root ######################################## # Run the Reports Weekly Monthly Daily # daily 0 0 * * * /usr/local/nmis8/bin/run-reports.pl day health 0 0 * * * /usr/local/nmis8/bin/run-reports.pl day top10 0 0 * * * /usr/local/nmis8/bin/run-reports.pl day outage 0 0 * * * /usr/local/nmis8/bin/run-reports.pl day response 0 0 * * * /usr/local/nmis8/bin/run-reports.pl day avail 0 0 * * * /usr/local/nmis8/bin/run-reports.pl day port # weekly 0 0 * * 0 /usr/local/nmis8/bin/run-reports.pl week health 0 0 * * 0 /usr/local/nmis8/bin/run-reports.pl week top10 0 0 * * 0 /usr/local/nmis8/bin/run-reports.pl week outage 0 0 * * 0 /usr/local/nmis8/bin/run-reports.pl week response 0 0 * * 0 /usr/local/nmis8/bin/run-reports.pl week avail # monthly 0 0 1 * * /usr/local/nmis8/bin/run-reports.pl month health 0 0 1 * * /usr/local/nmis8/bin/run-reports.pl month top10 0 0 1 * * /usr/local/nmis8/bin/run-reports.pl month outage 0 0 1 * * /usr/local/nmis8/installbin/users.datrun-reports.pl month response 0 0 1 * * /usr/local/nmis8/conf |
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File Permissions
Change Config.nmis to tell NMIS to use the new file permission scheme
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Change Config.nmis to tell NMIS to use htpasswd
Code Block %hash = ( --SNIP-- 'authentication' => { --SNIP-- 'auth_method_1' => 'htpasswd', # <= change this FROM apache TO htpasswdBackup old apache configGenerate new apache configuration (if you have customised yours edit it and remove the auth portions instead of generating a new one)
Code Block #backup old config cd /etc/httpd/conf.d/ cp 00nmis.conf 00nmis.conf.pre-8.3.18G24G.bak
Create new config to replace old config and restart apache
Code Block /usr/local/nmis/bin/nmis.pl type=apache > /etc/httpd/conf.d/00nmis.conf service httpd restart
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