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<div class="heading">NMIS Help</div>
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<td width="33%">Last updated 21 June 2001</td>
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<p align="center"><a href="http://www.sins.com.au/nmis/nmis-help.html">Online
Version</a></p>
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<p align="center"><a href="http://www.sins.com.au/nmis/">NMIS Home Page</a></p>
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<b>General:</b>
<ul>
<li><a href="#Menu">Menu</a></li>
<li><a href="#summary">Summary</a></li>
<li><a href="#health">Health</a></li>
<li><a href="#find">Find</a></li>
<li><a href="#event">Current Events</a></li>
<li><a href="#Event_Log">Event Log</a></li>
<li><a href="#reports">Reports</a></li>
<li><a href="#outage">Outages</a></li>
<li><a href="#link">Links</a></li>
<li><a href="#Logs">Logs</a></li>
<li><a href="#NMIS_Logs">NMIS Logs</a></li>
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<b>Tables:</b>
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<li><a href="#Nodes">Nodes</a></li>
<li><a href="#Links">Links</a></li>
<li><a href="#Locations">Locations</a></li>
<li><a href="#Contacts">Contacts</a></li>
<li><a href="#Event">Event Policy</a></li>
<li><a href="#Escalation">Escalation Policy</a></li>
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<b>Extras:</b>
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<li><a href="#Draw_Graph">Draw Graph</a></li>
<li><a href="#IP">IP</a></li>
<li><a href="#metrics.pl">metrics.pl</a></li>
<li><a href="#map.pl">map.pl</a></li>
<li><a href="#view.pl">view.pl</a></li>
<li><a href="#summary.pl">summary.pl</a></li>
<li><a href="#event.pl">event.pl</a></li>
<li><a href="#query.pl">query.pl</a></li>
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<td width="100%" colspan="4"><b><a name="Menu">Menu</a></b>
<p>From the menu you can access the features and functionality of NMIS,
there are buttons and pulldowns which allow various ways to access NMIS
items. Many things in NMIS are clickable allowing you to drill in
and around looking for information and answers.</p>
<p>One of NMIS key goals is to summarise the network into a single
metric. This has been achieved and allows network managers and
engineers to watch this metric for problems in the network as the metric
changes. These metrics are shown on the NMIS Dashboard. You
can view a small dash or a large dash, if you prefer the large dash by
default change the nmis.conf config item "show_large_menu" to
"true".
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<td width="100%" colspan="4"><b><a name="summary">Summary</a></b>
<p>This displays summary details about a node. This includes some
configuration information, a health graph and an interface table. If
you do not wish to see the uncollected interfaces set the nmis.conf config
item "show_non_collected_interfaces" to "false".<p>Graphs
are drillable.</td>
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<td width="100%" colspan="4"><b><a name="health">Health</a></b>
<p>This displays more detailed graphs about the health of a device.
If available, CPU, Memory, packets switched or routed, etc.</td>
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<td width="100%" colspan="4"><b><a name="find">Find</a></b>
<p>Allows you to search the NMIS data for all interfaces with the keywords
in IP address, description, interface name, subnet mask. This is a
simple way to see exactly how many Gigabit interfaces you have and the IP
addresses for each.<p>This becomes quite a powerful tool by being able to
identify which routers have which IP address and IP subnet.</td>
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<td width="100%" colspan="4"><b><a name="event">Current Events</a></b>
<p>Shows a list of active events in the NMIS event state table. This
is what is wrong with the network right now. You can acknowledge and
un-acknowledge events to stop them escalating. Events can't be
deleted, this is quite deliberate, without them in the log they will keep occurring.</td>
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<td width="100%" colspan="4"><b><a name="Event_Log">Event Log</a></b>
<p>A list of previous events color coded and drillable. Handy!</td>
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<td width="100%" colspan="4"><b><a name="reports">Reports</a></b>
<p>Produces dynamic reports and lists the snapshot reports if it has been
enabled (done through the reports.pl and run-reports.sh scripts).
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<td width="100%" colspan="4"><b><a name="outage">Outages</a></b>
<p>Add planned outages to NMIS so NMIS won't decrease your network
metrics.</td>
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<td width="100%" colspan="4"><b><a name="link">Links</a></b>
<p>When configured lists a set of links on NMIS and show summary
information, another nice way to view the network information.</td>
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<td width="100%" colspan="4"><b><a name="Logs">Logs</a> </b>
<p>Allows you to view color coded drillable logs of Cisco Syslog
information (if configured) and other logs you might like to have on your
web browser.</td>
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<td width="100%" colspan="4"><b><a name="NMIS_Logs">NMIS Log</a></b>
<p>Allows you to view NMIS log information for errors, etc. A great
place to look if things are going wrong.</td>
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<td width="100%" colspan="4"><b><a name="Nodes">Nodes</a></b>
<p>You can add, edit and delete entries to the NMIS Nodes table.</td>
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<td width="100%" colspan="4"><b><a name="Links">Links</a></b>
<p>You can add, edit and delete entries to the NMIS Links table.</td>
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<td width="100%" colspan="4"><b><a name="Locations">Locations</a></b>
<p>You can add, edit and delete entries to the NMIS Locations table.
Allows information to be stored about locations for the network.
Links to sysLocation. Lets map that logical to physical.</td>
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<td width="100%" colspan="4"><b><a name="Contacts">Contacts</a></b>
<p>You can add, edit and delete entries to the NMIS Contacts table.
Allows information to be stored about contacts for the network.
Links to sysContact.</td>
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<td width="100%" colspan="4"><b><a name="Event">Event Policy</a></b>
<p>You can add, edit and delete entries to the NMIS Event Policy
table. This controls how events are processed by NMIS, what event
level each node type and role type will generate and weather or not it
will send alerts.</td>
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<td width="100%" colspan="4"><b><a name="Escalation">Escalation Policy</a></b>
<p>You can add, edit and delete entries to the NMIS Escalation Policy
table. This controls how events are escalated by NMIS, what
each node type and role type will generate and weather or not and how it
will escalate unacknowledged events.</td>
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<td width="100%" colspan="4"><b><a name="IP">IP</a></b>
<p>The IP tool allows you to view and calculate IP addressing information
for IP subnetting. Handy if you are wondering what the broadcast
address is for IP address 10.24.51.193 mask 255.255.255.224</td>
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<td width="100%" colspan="4"><b><a name="Draw_Graph">Draw Graph</a></b>
<p>Draw graph is a subroutine used by NMIS to produce graphs, you can
embed this in any HTML you like and can be used to allow distributed
access, just to a view HTML source on one of the web pages to see
how. Basically you call it like this:<pre><img border="0" alt="Device Health"
src="http://nmis_server/cgi-nmis/nmiscgi.pl?file=nmis.conf&type=drawgraph&
node=c1000&graph=health&length=2days&start=0&end=0&width=500&height=100"></pre>
<p>Where:
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<li>file is nmis config file defaults to nmis.conf</li>
<li>type must be "drawgraph"</li>
<li>node is the node name</li>
<li>graph can be health, cpu, memory, interface, etc.</li>
<li>length is AT style, ie 2days, 1day, 2hours, etc.</li>
<li>start and end default to 0 but you can start x seconds ago and end y
seconds ago.</li>
<li>height and width are the requested size of the image, which will
actually be the size of the graph not the resulting image.</li>
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<td width="100%" colspan="4"><b><a name="metrics.pl">metrics.pl</a></b>
<p>This NMIS CGI script displays a simple metric table, handy for keeping
visible somewhere like an active desktop. </td>
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<td width="100%" colspan="4"><b><a name="map.pl">map.pl</a></b>
<p>This displays a map and icons of each configured group. You edit
the map.csv to control this. You should create and entry for each
Group and find a suitable Map background icon. The colors represent
the status, etc.</p>
<p>This is intended to put up on a screen for "at a glance"
checking on the network. Handy for a basic NOC monitoring function,
ie colored icons change to represent the problem and you can drill in. </td>
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<td width="100%" colspan="4"><b><a name="view.pl">view.pl</a></b>
<p>This allow NMIS to view and edit the CSV files used to control NMIS.</td>
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<td width="100%" colspan="4"><b><a name="summary.pl">summary.pl</a></b>
<p>This produces a VERY basic summary of the NMIS for group and node
status, alows drill around, intended for WAP, PDA Web Browsers, dialup,
etc.</td>
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<td width="100%" colspan="4"><b><a name="event.pl">event.pl</a></b>
<p>This allows integration for other systems to send events to NMIS over
HTTP, by calling URL's with required information. Quite handy to
allow NMIS event and escalation subsystem to be used for this! Ie
monitoring something else, oh its down, I will tell NMIS to add it to its
state table and check the policy and send an alert if required.</td>
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<td width="100%" colspan="4"><b><a name="query.pl">query.pl</a></b>
<p>This can be used to allow NMIS to be used in a distributed manner, this
CGI can be called from remote machines to determine what this NMIS is
monitoring and what the status and health of devices are.</td>
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