Prerequisites

NMIS version 8.3.24G or greater.

Unix Shell access to the NMIS server and suitable Unix privileges to edit the NMIS configuration files, usually a member of the group "nmis" or the root user.

Introduction

While working with customers who wanted to extend NMIS and use various methods for notifications, making it a highly extensible Network Management System.  To better support notification methods, the logic to initiate a notification and the method for notification has been split, so that additional notification methods can be added without having the modify the core part of NMIS.

This article will briefly describe how this capability works and how it supports operational agility.

Notification Extensibility in NMIS

What are Notifications in NMIS

NMIS raises an event internally and then applies an escalation policy to the event, the result of this escalation policy is a notification.  A notification method can be logging, email, SMS, netsend, any number of types.  In the past you needed to modify the core NMIS code to add a notification method, but now you can write a notification method outside of NMIS core code and it will be used as required at runtime.

Adding new Notification Types to NMIS

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