Nmis installation guide

For that, we use a cron job. Edit root's crontab "crontab -e" at the root shell , like so. The lines to change for other distros e. Debian are the last three. Everything else should be fine. After you're done, issuing a crontab -l is a good idea to make sure it's all there.

Unfortunately, this file is not in the tarball for NMIS, so you'll get a non-fatal "Hey, there's no ciscopix. Fortunately, that's easy to fix. And now, go ahead and add your hosts to NMIS. There's a nice GUI for doing that which is pretty easy to use. Hey, if an MCSE like me can figure this out, anyone can. Time to celebrate!

You're done! Enjoy your shiny new NMIS installation, and be sure to thank the teams that brought it to you. Evaluate Confluence today. Pages Blog Questions. Space shortcuts Downloads. Page tree. Browse pages. A t tachments 0 Page History People who can view. Jira links. If you find RRDtool useful make me happy. The easiest method for installing NMIS 8. Simply run the commands shown below and the remaining steps of the installation procedure will be taken care for you:.

If you don't want to use the install script for any reason then please continue with the remaining instructions in this document to perform a manual installation. Please note that these instructions will not be updated in the future except for gross problems as we're focusing on on improving the automatic installer to simplify all sorts of deployments and upgrades; under all normal circumstances the automatic installer does a more comprehensive job already.

The instructions below are therefore mainly of historic interest - You should not need to perform any of these manual steps! NMIS version 8. Powered by Atlassian Confluence 7. If you want to read the installer source, or access the distributed files without actual installation, then simply pass the arguments —-keep --noexec to the run file invocation, e. If your NMIS was downloaded after , then the installer also offers a non-interactive automatic mode, where all the normal questions are automatically answered with the default choice.

To use this mode, simply pass in -y somewhere after the mandatory -- separator , e. The installer creates a log of all the operations that it performs, which is saved in the main NMIS installation directory as install. It is safe to delete the installer log file if you don't want to keep old installation and upgrade info.

The old manual installation instructions are available for your perusal on this page. Please note that these old instructions are no longer updated and will definitely diverge more or less from current best practice! Evaluate Confluence today.

Pages Blog Questions. Space shortcuts Downloads. Page tree. Browse pages. A t tachments 1 Page History People who can view. Jira links. The installer is interactive and will generally request your confirmation for any critical operations that it needs to perform; if you don't consent to it making some particular change it will likely show you a message about the consequences of not performing that operation and ask you to confirm that you've read that before continuing the installation.

And that's really all there is to it! When the installer finishes, NMIS should be fully installed and working. Warning: You do not have write permission for Perl library directories. To install modules, you need to configure a local Perl library directory or escalate your privileges. Permissive mode was tested and it worked well, just very nagging; the default mode is known to interfere with NMIS. To check if SELinux is disabled you can use the command getenforce.

Similarly, if you have a firewall on your server e. As of February , NMIS is distributed in a self-extracting download format that simplifies the installation process quite a bit. Please note that the installer must be run with superuser privileges; if you're not the root user you'll have to use sudo or su to switch privileges. Starting the self-extracting installer is trivial: you simply tell your shell to run it, using one of two mechanisms:. The installer will first run an archive integrity check, decompress the archive, then start the interactive phase of the installation.

The installer takes care of all necessary operations on the supported platforms: all pre-requisite software is installed and configured, an existing NMIS installation is upgraded in place and basic integration of NMIS with the operating system is performed on your behalf as well. The installer does require Internet access for installing pre-requisites using apt-get, yum and CPAN but we do have a few suggestions for dealing with a system where Internet access is restricted.

As of 8. Please see the Advanced Installer Use section at the bottom if you need more precise control over the installer. There is one important aspect regarding the initial configuration of the CPAN tool. Depending on your versions of Perl and the CPAN tool, and whether SELinux is enabled or not, you may be asked about the "approach for installing modules" in a dialog similar to this example:.

It is essential that you choose sudo for this question, not the default local::lib. When the installer has completed its work you should be set to start using NMIS. This command below will do a quick check of directory and file existence as well as ownership and permissions.

Now, fire up your favourite Web browser and surf to your server. If the web server is running but you can't access the GUI check your firewall; some Linux distributions do ship with a firewall enabled by default e.