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The nmis daemon is controllable using the typical service interface with the service name being "nmis9d"; e.g. sudo service nmis9d restart .
The daemon should be running by the end of the initial NMIS9 installation.
The primary CLI
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tool bin/nmis-cli
The nmis-cli tool is your primary tool to interact NMIS on the command line; e.g. for querying the status of the nmis daemons, for scheduling new operations and for scheduling outages.
Besides these administrative duties the cli tool is currently the only entity that can create saved reports (which is scheduled using a minimal NMIS 9 cron job).
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