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Installation Prerequisites
- The individual performing this installation has some Linux experience.
- NMIS8 is installed on the same server where opHA will be installed
- NMIS8 is installed in /usr/local/nmis8
- opHA will be installed into /usr/local/nmis8
- Root access is available (not always needed but much easier)
- Perl 5.10
- RRDtool 1.4.7
- NMIS 8.3.24G or later
- opHA will be installed onto the Master and each Slave NMIS server
Installation Steps
Install CPAN Libraries
NMIS optionally uses a UUID for devices, this is enabled by default with using opHA, the Perl CPAN library Data::UUID will be required, this is described in the article Using Unique Identifiers (UUID) for NMIS Nodes. You can install this using CPAN
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Install opHA Software
This step will be repeated for each NMIS master and slave server
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[root@thor conf]# /usr/local/nmis8/bin/nmis.pl type=master debug=true NMIS Copyright (C) 1999-2011 Opmantek Limited (www.opmantek.com) This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; This is free software licensed under GNU GPL, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see www.opmantek.com or email contact@opmantek.com NMIS version 8.3.4G 14:00:33 nmisMaster, Running NMIS Master Functions 14:00:33 nmisMaster, Master, processing Slave Server vali 14:00:33 nmisMaster, Get loadnodedetails from vali 14:00:33 nmisMaster, Get sumnodetable from vali 14:00:34 nmisMaster, get summary8 from vali 14:00:34 nmisMaster, get summary16 from vali [root@thor conf]# |
Running a Master Collection
You can optionally have the NMIS polling cycle do the master collection, or you can run it separately from Cron. If you want to have it seperate which is a good option, change the following NMIS configuration item nmis_master_poll_cycle to be false in the file /usr/local/nmis8/conf/Config.nmis:
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