Installation Prerequisites

• The individual performing this installation has some Linux experience.
• NMIS8 is installed on the same server where opMaps will be installed
• NMIS8 is installed in /usr/local/nmis8
• opMaps will be installed into /usr/local/opmantek
• Root access is available (not always needed but much easier)
• Perl 5.12
• RRDtool 1.4.7

Installation Steps

• Copy the opMaps tarball to the server (a tarball is a GZIP'd tar file, e.g. opMaps-Linux-x86_64-1.4.tar.gz for 64bit Linux or opMaps-Linux-i686-1.4.tar.gz for 32bit Linux)
  1. You may need to use SCP or FTP to get the file onto the server.
• The file will now likely be in the users home directory.
• If the installation directory does not already exist
• Change into the directory where the tarball was copied
• Untar the file

cd /usr/local
tar xvf ~/opMaps-Linux-x86_64-<version>.tar.gz
cd opmantek/
cp install/Maps.nmis conf/
cp install/opCommon.nmis conf/ 
bin/opfixperms.pl
cp install/01opmantek.conf /etc/httpd/conf.d/
service httpd restart

Getting a Google API Key

opMaps requires a Google API Key, It is recommended to use your own Google API Key.

If you don’t already have one, please follow these steps from Google to acquire one.

Configure Google API Key

To configure your own Google API key, open the Maps.nmis file in /usr/local/opmantek/conf/

vi /usr/local/opmantek/conf/Maps.nmis

Find the following line under 'mapview' =>

'googleApiKey' => 'defaultAPI'

Replace the defaultAPI with your own Google API KEY

eg: 'googleApiKey' => 'AIzaSblahblahblahblah--blahwQPmscElk-8'

Alternate Installation Directory

opMaps can be installed into another directory if required, e.g. /opt/opmantek, the same process applies, but a few files will need to be changed.

Edit Maps.nmis and change the <omk_base> to be the new, e.g.

'<omk_base>' => '/opt/opmantek',

Edit the Apache include file, which if already copied to /etc/httpd/conf.d will be /etc/httpd/conf.d/01opmantek.conf and change the following lines to the new installation location

Alias /opmantek/ "/usr/local/opmantek/htdocs/"

ScriptAlias /cgi-omk/ "/usr/local/opmantek/cgi-bin/"

<Directory "/usr/local/opmantek/cgi-bin"> 

Access opMaps Web Page

The default URL to access opMaps is http://nmis.domain.com/cgi-omk/opMaps.pl

Any authentication challenges will be the same as to login to your NMIS8 system.

Configuring opMaps

Please go to opMaps Configuration Guide