<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>NMIS - Features</TITLE> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Language" CONTENT="en-us"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <STYLE TYPE="text/css"> TD { font-size : small; border-width : 1px; border-style : solid; border-color : #aaaaaa; } TD.blank { font-size : small; border-width : 0px; } TABLE { color : Black; background : White; border-width : 1px; border-style : solid; border-color : #aaaaaa; width : 100%; } TABLE.blank { color : Black; background : White; border-width : 0px; } P { font-family : Arial; } BODY { font-style : normal; font-variant : normal; font-size : small; color : white; background-color : #190032; text-decoration : none; font-family : Arial; } A:active { color : red; background-color : White; text-decoration : none } A:link { color : blue; background-color : White; text-decoration : underline } A:visited { color : blue; background-color : White; text-decoration : underline } A:hover { color : red; background-color : White; text-decoration : underline } .heading { font-style : normal; font-weight : bold; font-size : x-large; font-family : "Arial Rounded MT Bold"; background-color : #190032; color : White; } </STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <div class="heading">NMIS - Features</div> <table> <tr> <td width="33%">Last updated 21 June 2001</td> <td width="33%"> <p align="center"><a href="http://www.sins.com.au/nmis/nmis-features.html">Online Version</a></p> </td> <td width="33%"> <p align="center"><a href="http://www.sins.com.au/nmis/">NMIS Home Page</a></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" colspan="3">The following is a list of NMIS features. This is by no means comprehensive but provides and idea of what NMIS can do. <p><b>General</b></p> <ul> <li>The entire network is summarised into a single metric, which indicates reachability, availability and health of all network devices being managed by NMIS.</li> <li>Summary page for entire network with reachability, availability, health, response time metrics.</li> <li>Summary pages of devices including device information, health graph, and interface summary.</li> <li>Can be distributed across multiple "polling servers" by using included programs.</li> <li>Policy based event and escalation.</li> </ul> <p><b>Performance and Fault</b></p> <ul> <li>Integrated Fault and Performance Management.</li> <li>Color coded events, status for at a glance interpretation.</li> <li>Graphing of Interface, CPU, Memory stats for Cisco Routers and Switches.</li> <li>Graphs can be drilled into.</li> <li>Graphs produced on the fly.</li> <li>Graphs can have varying lengths from 2hours to 1 year.</li> <li>Interface statistics are returned in Utilisation and/or bits per second.</li> <li>Response time graphed and metrics for health and availability generated from statistics collected.</li> <li>Threshold engine which send alerts on certain thresholds.</li> <li>Escalation subsystem based on device groups which provides a great deal of granularity.</li> <li>Varying event levels for different device types.</li> <li>Alert events are issued for device down or interface down.</li> <li>Event levels are set according to how important the device is.</li> <li>Events are "State full" including thresholds, meaning that an event is only issued once. </li> <li>Notification engine can be expanded to handle any "command line" notification method, including email, paging, signs, speakers, etc.</li> <li>Integrated logging facility to view NMIS events and syslog messages.</li> <li>A list of current events is available and there is an escalation level and time the event has been active.</li> <li>Event logging</li> <li>Outage time calculated for each down event</li> <li>Planned outages can be put in so alerts are not issued</li> </ul> <p><b>Configuration</b></p> <ul> <li>Find function which searches interface information for node name, interface name, description, type, IP address, for matching interfaces.</li> <li>Interface information includes IP address information.</li> <li>Dynamic handling of ifIndex changes and difficult SNMP interface handling</li> <li>Checking of changes to device details.</li> <li>NMIS stores contacts and location information which links to the SNMP sysContact and sysLocation MIBS.</li> <li>Produces DNS and Host records from the collected IP addressing information</li> <li>Produces DNS LOC records for "visible" traceroute utilities.</li> </ul> <p><b>Reporting</b></p> <ul> <li>Reports for utilisation, outages, etc</li> <li>Snapshot and dynamic reporting for metrics on all devices and groups of devices.</li> </ul> </td> </tr> </table> </BODY> </HTML>