Does NMIS use a client?

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   • Alexander Zangerl
   • Mar 30, 2015

   So, summarizing:

   • if you want just to keep track of reachability and aliveness, then allowing PING will be sufficient.
   • if you'd like to collect information with SNMP, then your client system will have to run an SNMP agent (e.g. the common net-snmp daemon for UNIX-ish systems, or builtin agents on most networking or embedded hardware)
   • if you'd like to monitor services end-to-end with NMIS then I'd say it depends on the service in question. The pages on Managing Servers and Services with NMIS8 and the Service Monitoring Examples have more details.

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   • Mark Henry
   • Mar 12, 2015

   NMIS makes use of 2 technologies to monitor your network devices - ping and SNMP (supporting v1, v2c, and v3). Since SNMP ships with most devices today, it is still a service which must be enabled and managed.

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