NMIS 8.3.15G is being released for general availability, This release provides many bug fixes and a few new features.
Install CPAN Modules
NMIS8 now requires Net::Syslog, see the 8.3.9G patch for info on SMTP::SSL
cpan install Net::SMTP::SSL # (required for 8.3.9G) install Net::Syslog
Patch NMIS8 code with the NMIS8.3.15G update
Patch NMIS8 Config
Your NMIS installation may have settings that you have changed from the default installation. If you would like to keep these changes you will need to merge the additional fields that have been added into the stock configuration into your custom configuration. NMIS provides a tool called updateconfig.pl to help you do this:
# merge changes for new NMIS Config options. /usr/local/nmis8/admin/updateconfig.pl /usr/local/nmis8/install/Config.nmis /usr/local/nmis8/conf/Config.nmis /usr/local/nmis8/admin/updateconfig.pl /usr/local/nmis8/install/Access.nmis /usr/local/nmis8/conf/Access.nmis
Most of the config files will likely be the same as the install version, for these you can just copy the new versions
# copy newer configuration files (check that you don't have local changes to these files before running) 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/Services.nmis /usr/local/nmis8/conf cp /usr/local/nmis8/install/License.nmis /usr/local/nmis8/conf cp /usr/local/nmis8/install/Modules.nmis /usr/local/nmis8/conf cp /usr/local/nmis8/install/Escalations.nmis /usr/local/nmis8/conf cp /usr/local/nmis8/install/Portal.nmis /usr/local/nmis8/conf cp /usr/local/nmis8/install/logrotate.conf /usr/local/nmis8/conf cp /usr/local/nmis8/install/users.dat /usr/local/nmis8/conf
Restart Daemons
/usr/local/nmis8/bin/fpingd.pl restart=true
Clean up and test
# fix permissions /usr/local/nmis8/admin/fixperms.pl # test polling /usr/local/nmis8/bin/nmis.pl type=collect debug=true node=<node to test>