NMIS v9

We're actively working on the next generation of NMIS and early beta releases are now available. Please contact us at beta@opmantek.com if you'd like to experiment with NMIS 9.

• NMIS 9 Release Notes

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NMIS v8 Documentation

Current NMIS v8 documentation is listed below.

• Getting Started - Opmantek Virtual Appliance Bundle Installation
• NMIS8 Release Notes and the Virtual Appliance Release Notes
• NMIS 8 Installation Guide and the (very simple) instructions for  Upgrading NMIS to 8.6.3G
• NMIS8 Quick Start Guide
  • Configuring Email Server for NMIS Notifications including Gmail server
• NMIS8 Configuration Guide
• Node Administration Tools
• Managing Servers and Services with NMIS8
  • Service Monitoring Examples
  • Enabling SNMP Management on Windows 2008 Server
• NMIS Configuration Part 1 on the "show brain" blog
• NMIS Configuration Part 2 on the "show brain" blog
• Using SNMPv3 with NMIS for Secure Network Management
• Cisco router basic SNMP v1 or v2 configuration guide 
• SNMP Traps with Cisco and Other devices
  
• NMIS8 Vendor and Device Support
• Information about Network Ports

NMIS in Depth

Why does NMIS do that, how does it work?

• Configuring NMIS for Multi-Tenancy - how to prevent NMIS users from seeing devices they are not supposed to see.
• How To Customise Interface Speed, Collection, Thresholds and Events Using Node Configuration
• Manage Current Events - acknowledge events to stop escalation and notification
• Basic and Advanced Thresholds in NMIS8
• NMIS Threshold Configuration
• NMIS Metrics, Reachability, Availability and Health
• Amount of Performance Data Storage NMIS8 Stores
• Description of the NMIS Event Log
• NMIS Event List
• NMIS Node Status
• Import Nodes into NMIS8 - bulk import and integration
• Alerts - Using models to generate custom events
• Creating NMIS Email Notifications for a Specific Node and Interface
• Configuration Files for NMIS
• Custom Tables in NMIS
• Using Unique Identifiers (UUID) for NMIS Nodes
• Custom Notification Methods for NMIS Events
• NMIS Dashboards with Alternate Groupings - Customers and Business Services
• Developing Device Models for NMIS
  
  • NMIS Model Policy
  • Modelling for WMI
  • Device Modelling Checklist
  • Modelling MIBS that use Indexes using the systemHealth section
  • Advanced Modelling: When a single SNMP variable isn't enough
• Extending SNMPd for custom monitoring
• Making Sounds for Critical Events on the NMIS Dashboard
• How NMIS pings nodes, using fpingd/fping or ping
• Ping Timeout and NMIS, including fast ping - fping
• Scaling NMIS Polling
• NMIS Customising the Dashboard Layout - Save Windows and Positions
• Controlling the Collection of Interfaces, Adjustments and Overrides
• Configuring syslog to get 'Network Events' on Master
• Scaling NMIS polling - how NMIS handles long running processes
• NMIS Handling Counter64 using SNMPv1
• Linking Nodes to other systems including Web, SSH, Telnet and whatever you need.

NMIS Troubleshooting & Micro FAQ

• The NMIS Support Tool
• NMIS File Permissions
• Configuration Files for NMIS (and how often they change)
• Logs, debugs and files which are useful when troubleshooting and resolving issues in NMIS
• Regular System Maintenance for NMIS
• SNMP Tuning
• SNMP Troubleshooting
• Testing SNMP Connectivity from the NMIS Server with snmpwalk
• Adding and Editing a Device in NMIS8
• Learning and Understanding Perl
• Installing Perl Libraries with and without CPAN
• NMIS8 Graphs Showing letters after the numbers in the y-axis
• Configuring NMIS to use Internal Authentication
• Configuring NMIS to use Secure Active Directory Authentication (ms-ldaps)
• Important NMIS Configuration Options
• Virtual Appliance Maintenance: Updating Software

NMIS Training

Opmantek has training material available for NMIS, this is available in PDF format, and includes a movie which is about an hour long for the NMIS Device Modelling Training.  All this downloadable:

• NMIS8 User Training
• NMIS8 Administration Training
• NMIS8 Developer Training
• NMIS8 Device Modelling Training
• NMIS8 Device Modelling Training Webcast

NMIS Support

• How to upgrade and maintain model files
• Default Credentials (Passwords) for NMIS8 VM
• User Management in NMIS8
• Moving the NMIS database to a new partition
• Additional support can be found on the nmis_users mailing list although we recommend commenting on this community site.

Old patching

• Upgrading NMIS to 8.6.1G
• Upgrading NMIS to 8.6.0G
• Upgrading NMIS to 8.5.12G
• Upgrading NMIS to 8.5.10G
• Upgrading NMIS to 8.5.8G
• Upgrading NMIS to 8.5.6G
• Upgrading NMIS to 8.5.4G
• NMIS 8 Installation Guide (up to Version 8.5.4G)
• Upgrading NMIS to 8.5.2G
• Upgrading NMIS to 8.5G
• Upgrading NMIS to 8.4.10G
• Patching NMIS with 8.4.6G
• Patching NMIS with 8.3.4G Update
• Patching NMIS with 8.3.6G Update
• Patching NMIS with 8.3.9G Update
• Patching NMIS with 8.3.15G Update
• Patching NMIS with 8.3.18G Update
• Patching NMIS with 8.4.1G

NMIS4 Documentation

• NMIS 4.3.6e Installation Documentation- contributed by Terrell Prude.

Other Resources for NMIS Users

• Learning and Understanding Perl

Documentación NMIS Español

• Documentación Español NMIS
• Documentación Español opConfig
• Documentación español Español opFlow
• Manuales operativos

Opmantek Modules to Extend NMIS8

• opEvents - Event Management working like ITIL V3 intended. Managing syslog, SNMP trap, NMIS events and any log content.
• opFlow - Application level visibility using NetFlow information, providing incredible visibility into bandwidth usage, by user and application.
• opReports - Expert reporting, with traffic lights and actions.
• opMaps - Geographical mapping of your Organisation, from NMIS information.
• opSLA - Enhanced IPSLA engine for 10000's of IPSLA probes on a single server.
• opHA - High availability for NMIS through Master/Poller and Multi-Master configurations.
• opConfig - Automatically track and back up configurations. Compare configurations.
• opCharts - Modern, dynamic, interactive charting, custom dashboards and a RESTful API for all NMIS data and more.