NMIS is a Network Management Information System, providing critical information about the IT Infrastructure, including network, firewalls, servers, UPS, sensors and basically anything which supports SNMP.  NMIS is a complete network management system, the software was open sourced in 1999.

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Introduction

NMIS is a complete management system which collects fault, performance and basic inventory/configuration data from routers, switches, servers, firewalls, facilities (UPS, AC/CRACK, Sensors), and anything which has an SNMP agent.  NMIS is highly extensible, using device models to define what is collected from devices, and how events are handled.

In summary, NMIS supports any device which supports SNMP with "Default" models, this is called standard support, this includes Default models for SNMPv1 only devices, and newer SNMP agents which support the High Capacity agent.  Device support NMIS has been extended for various vendors and products, this includes collecting, alerting and thresholding on additional information like CPU, memory, disk, services, storage, sessions, packets, and many other things.

Extended device support can be added to NMIS without coding by using the modelling system to tell NMIS what a device is and what MIBS need to be collected and stored.

Vendors Supported by NMIS

Any product which supports SNMP and the SNMP standards, is supported by NMIS, to provide a guideline, the following shows the vendors supported by NMIS, and if there is basic or extended support.  A more complete list of SNMP vendors is available at Network Management System NMIS Supported Vendors SNMP.