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We now need to get RRDtool, by Tobi Oetiker. The NMIS development team suggests that you download the latest stable RRDtool and compile it yourself - however, for normal NMIS deployments the distribution-provided RRDtool is generally sufficient.  

If you want to skip the build step and use packaged versions, simply install the following packages and then skip to the next step.

Debian/Ubuntu:

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apt-get install rrdtool librrds-perl

CentOS/Red Hat:

Code Block
yum -y install rrdtool rrdtool-perl

Compiling your own RRDtool:

The latest version of RRD is available at http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/.

Unpack the RRDtool tarball.   NMIS8 has been testing using v1.4.7 and for this example. To build and install a “GNU” make based system, you run ./configure, then make, then make install, for RRDTool for NMIS we need a configure option setup.

 

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tar -xvf rrdtool-1.4.8.tar.gz
[local]# cd rrdtool-1.4.8 
[rrdtool-1.4.8]# 
./configure --enable-shared --prefix=/usr/local/rrdtool

 

When this step is finished, you should see something like this:

 

Code Block
ordering CD from http://tobi.oetiker.ch/wish .... just kidding ;-)


----------------------------------------------------------------
Config is DONE!


 With MMAP IO: yes
 Build rrd_getopt: no
 Static programs: no
 Perl Modules: perl_piped perl_shared
 Perl Binary: /usr/bin/perl
 Perl Version: 5.8.8
 Perl Options: PREFIX=/usr/local/rrdtool LIB=/usr/local/rrdtool/lib/perl/5.8.8
 Ruby Modules:
 Ruby Binary: no
 Ruby Options: sitedir=/usr/local/rrdtool/lib/ruby
 Build Lua Bindings: no
 Build Tcl Bindings: no
 Build Python Bindings: no
 Build rrdcgi: yes
 Build librrd MT: yes
 Use gettext: yes
 With libDBI: no


 Libraries: -lxml2 -lcairo -lcairo -lcairo -lm -lcairo -lpng12 -lglib-2.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lcairo -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0


Type 'make' to compile the software and use 'make install' to
install everything to: /usr/local/rrdtool.


 ... that wishlist is NO JOKE. If you find RRDtool useful
make me happy. Go to http://tobi.oetiker.ch/wish and
place an order.


 -- Tobi Oetiker <tobi@oetiker.ch>
----------------------------------------------------------------

 

So far, so good. You have all the things RRDtool needs to compile. Let's keep going.

 

Code Block
make && make install

Now, rrdtool should be installed the way NMIS likes it.

NMIS8 Installation

And speaking of NMIS, if you haven't already downloaded it, the latest version (v8.5G at time of this writing) is available at http://opmantek.com

 

Code Block
cd ~
tar -xvzf nmis8.5g.tar.gz
The unpacking of the tarball in the previous step created a directory called nmis8.5g, which can be installed manually or semi-automatically.

Automatic Installation

 
The easiest method for installing NMIS 8.5g (or upgrading to this version) is to use the semi-automatic installation and upgrade script, install.pl.
Simply run the commands shown below and the remaining steps of the installation procedure will be taken care for you:

 

Code Block
cd nmis8.5g
./install.pl -h
...shows the list of options for the install script
./install.pl listdeps=true
...shows what perl modules are missing, and how to get them
/install.pl
...simply follow the on-screen prompts to perform the actual installation.

 

The installer will likely tell you that a number of CPAN modules are missing and should be installed; the on-screen prompts will guide you through that process.

 

That's all there is to it, NMIS should now be installed and working.

Manual Installation

 
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.

At this point, I like to copy this entire directory to the /usr/local directory tree and make some symlinks, like so.

 

Code Block
mkdir /usr/local/nmis8/ 
cp -r nmis8.4.8g/* /usr/local/nmis8/
rm -rf ~/nmis8.4.8g 
cd /usr/local

 

My <nmisdir> is, in this case, /usr/local/nmis8.  For those who have been using NMIS for a while, make a /usr/local/nmis.

 

Code Block
ln -s nmis8 nmis

 

The <nmisdir> tree needs to be owned by the user "nmis", which doesn't exist yet. Furthermore, the userID under which Apache runs ("apache" on Red Hat and "wwcwww-data" on Debian) needs to have access to the <nmisdir> tree. So, we need to add to make these things happen. We are still in the /usr/local directory at this point.

 

Code Block
useradd nmis
groupadd nmis 
#this may return "groupadd: group 'nmis' already exists" this can safely be ignored but if you want to verify try this:
groups nmis

Now we add the Apache userID to the nmis group.

 

Code Block
usermod -G nmis apache # Red Hat/CentOS
adduser nmis www-data # Debian/Ubuntu

 

NOTE: the stuff that used to be sitting in <nmisdir>/conf in previous NMIS tarballs is now located in <nmisdir>/install. Since we're doing a new installation here, we'll just copy everything in <nmisdir>/install to <nmisdir>/conf.

 

Code Block
cd /usr/local/nmis/
cp -rPv install/* conf/
# also copy models-install to models
cp models-install/* models/

Perl CPAN Module Installation

Now, let's get busy with the Perl modules. NMIS, being written in Perl, uses numerous "Perl modules". These are available from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, known affectionately as "CPAN". No, not "C-SPAN", I mean "CPAN". :-)

Here's how we get to CPAN.

 

Code Block
perl -MCPAN -e "shell"
# alternatively, with more modern cpan installations:
cpan

 

You will be asked a bunch of questions. It is safe to select all the defaults. Indeed, if you don't know what the questions are asking you, selecting the defaults is strongly recommended! HOWEVER, with some distros (Debian is a notable exception) you must select some CPAN mirrors, because that's where you're going to download your Perl modules from. Choose those which are closest to you. For me, that's North America; for Peruvians and Brazilians, that's South America; and so on.

On some distros like Red Hat/CentOS, you should start with this command. Debian doesn't seem to require it, which is good, because the command doesn't work on Debian's CPAN client anyway. :-)

 

Code Block
$cpan> o conf set LC_ALL=C #(Red Hat/CentOS)

 

Additionally, I like to ensure my CPAN client program, which is what we're running ("CPAN.pm"), is the latest, up-to-date version. This will take a while and ask for several other "dependency" modules. Just tell it "yes" each time.  If you would like to have cpan automatically choose yes use this code:

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$cpan> o conf prerequisites_policy follow
$cpan> o conf commit #use this if you want to save this setting for next time

And run this code to do the update:

Code Block
$cpan>  
$cpan> reload cpan

 

OK, we've got CPAN prepped, locked, and loaded. :-) Now, install all the Perl modules listed in the official NMIS docs, like so.

$cpan> (assume the following lines are at this prompt)
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install JSON
install JSON::XS 
install Proc::ProcessTable
install Image::Resize
install Net::SNMP
install Time::HiRes
install Time::ParseDate
install Statistics::Lite
install Net::Syslog 
install Net::SNPP
install Net::LDAP 
install Net::SMTP
install Net::SMTP::SSL 
install Net::DNS # Only required if using DNS lookups for geoplots
install IPC::Shareable # Only required if multithreading on Unix/Linux.
install BSD::Resource # Only required if multithreading on Unix/Linux.
install GD::Graph # Only required for Capacity Planning tool.
install Net::EasyTCP # Only required for master slave operation.
install Data::Dumper # Required for cgi metrics stats caching
install Cache::Mmap # required for caching cgi metric stat
install Proc::Queue
install Date::Parse
install Date::Calc
install Math::Round
install DBI
install CGI::Pretty 
install Crypt::DES  
#Now, you're ready to exit CPAN.
exit

With recent versions of cpan it's also possible to give the modules to install on the command line:

Code Block
cpan Math::Round DBI CGI::Pretty # ...and so on

 

Unix File Permissions

Make nmis user and group own all the files.

 

Code Block
chown -Rv nmis:nmis <nmisdir>
chmod -Rv g+w <nmisdir>

If you decide on a different user and group name, update the NMIS Configuration Config.nmis accordingly.

One of the joys of Unix is granular file permissions, one of the frustrations of Unix is granular file permissions.  To assist we have added a handy script in the admin directory <nmisdir>/admin/fixperms.pl which will read the NMIS Configuration and fix the permissions accordingly.

 

Code Block
admin/fixperms.pl

# This script will fix the permissions for NMIS based on the configuration /usr/local/nmis8/admin/../conf/Config.nmis
# The directory to be processed is: /usr/local/nmis8
# The user will be set to: nmis
# The group will be set to: nmis

 

Initial NMIS Test

You should now be set. As an initial check, I like to go into my <nmisdir>/cgi-bin directory and run

Code Block
cd /usr/local/nmis8/cgi-bin
./nmiscgi.pl

and see what happens. If all is working, you should get a bunch of HTML code. If you don't, it'll probably be NMISCGI complaining that it cannot find a given Perl module. Review your steps above; you likely missed something. The important thing to do is not to panic. 

 

Initial NMIS Troubleshooting

RRDTool Libraries not Found

(This should no longer be a problem on NMIS8, but if you did something different with RRDTool, this is an easy way to fix it.)

For some reason, on some distros, NMIS will not be able to find the file RRDs.pm, which is a Perl module that comes with RRDtool, and that NMIS needs to be able to find and use. I ran into this problem. Fortunately, the NMIS development team included a small hack to take care of this. The line explicitly "uses" the RRDs.pm file in the/usr/local/rrdtool directory tree, but you have to uncomment that line in the NMIS program files themselves.

One way to quickly accomplish that is to run the following script within /usr/local/nmis8/bin and /usr/local/nmis8/cgi-bin. You can just cut 'n' paste it into your terminal.

 

Code Block
#!/bin/bash
for file in *.pl
do 
 sed -i 's|#use lib "/usr/local/rrdtool|use lib "/usr/local/rrdtool|g' $file
done

NMIS Config Test

Once this is working, you're ready to head into the <nmisdir>/bin directory and do the "acid" test.

 

Code Block
cd /usr/local/nmis8
./bin/nmis.pl type=config debug=true

 

You should get what looks like a long checklist with "OK" at the end of every check. If you do this, then NMIS itself is configured correctly.  The output will look something like this:

 

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./bin/nmis.pl type=config debug=true
 NMIS version 8.1.1
 
 Root directory of NMIS is /usr/local/nmis8
 
05:20:05 checkConfig, Config Checking - Checking database directories
05:20:05 loadTable, ERROR file does not exist dir=var name=nmis-event
05:20:05 writeHashtoFile, write data to /usr/local/nmis8/var/nmis-event.nmis
05:20:05 loadTable, ERROR file does not exist dir=var name=nmis-system
05:20:05 writeHashtoFile, write data to /usr/local/nmis8/var/nmis-system.nmis
 Continue with bin/nmis.pl type=apache for configuration rules of the Apache web server

The errors above are OK, NMIS will fix them itself.

NMIS Web Server Setup

Now, we need to set up the Web server so that folks can actually *get to* NMIS and look at the data. :-) That means generating an Apache config file pointing to the NMIS directory tree. NMIS itself is smart enough to be able to generate this for us. Thanks, NMIS team!

All you have to do is this.

 

Code Block
./bin/nmis.pl type=apache > 00nmis.conf

 

We name the file prepending 00 so that it is the first config file read.  The main part of the Apache config is as follows.

 

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# NMIS Aliases
 
Alias /nmis8/ "/usr/local/nmis8/htdocs/"
<Directory "">
 Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
 AllowOverride None
 Order allow,deny
 Allow from all
</Directory>
 
Alias /menu8/ "/usr/local/nmis8/menu/"
<Directory "/menu8">
 Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
 AllowOverride None
 Order allow,deny
 Allow from all
</Directory>
 
ScriptAlias /cgi-nmis8/ "/usr/local/nmis8/cgi-bin/"
<Directory "/usr/local/nmis8/cgi-bin">
 Options +ExecCGI
 Order allow,deny
 Allow from all
</Directory>

You can use whatever filename you want instead of "00nmis.conf".  This is very distro-dependent.

CentOS and other Red Hat derivatives:

Copy 00nmis.conf to /etc/httpd/conf.d/ 

Code Block
cp ./00nmis.conf /etc/httpd/conf.d/

Debian/Ubuntu:

Copy 00nmis.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/, and you must also make a symlink to that file from /etc/apache2/sites-enabled.

Note that Debian/Ubuntu have an existing "000-default" symlink in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled. Remembering how Apache processes config files, we must rename this symlink to something like "default" without the "000"! This is so "00nmis.conf" will be seen first. Otherwise you'll get the Apache default home page ("It Works!") instead of the NMIS home page. Not what we want. :-)

Debian systems have one other requirement for this file. Two lines need to be edited, specifically the "ErrorLog" and "CustomLog" lines. The lines as they are point to locations present in Red Hat-style distros (this is really Red Hat following Apache's upstream functionality). Debian don't do that. Therefore, Apache will complain and refuse to start unless we make these tweaks.

Since Debian put their Apache logs under /var/log/apache2, I edited these lines to read as follows:

 

Code Block
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/nmis-dev-error_log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/nmis-dev-access_log common

 

You can also integrate the above extract into your existing web server configuration under its own virtual host, or into an existing set of hosts.  This means you can run other version of NMIS on the same server, or for different customers for example, this is intended to be flexible for alternate integration.

Now that your NMIS config file for Apache is present--and if necessary, tweaked for your distro--start Apache itself. If it's already started, then restart it. How to do this is also very distro-dependent. Unlike me, BSD and Solaris users don't need no steenkin' startup scripts. :-)

Auto Start HTTPD Server

Ensure that you tell Linux to start HTTPD automatically

 

Code Block
/sbin/chkconfig httpd on

Debian/Ubuntu Users

Nothing should be necessary as the apache2 is set to automatically start during the initial package installation, but if this should have failed:

Code Block
update-rc.d apache2 defaults

 

Start HTTPD Server

You will need to start or restart Apache after configuration.

CentOS/Red Hat:

 

Code Block
/etc/init.d/httpd start
# or
/etc/init.d/httpd restart

Debian/Ubuntu:

Code Block
service apache2 start
# or
service apache2 restart

 

If you get an error like this, it just means the hostname and FQDN on the Linux box hasn’t been setup right, verify you have this setup correctly and update the httpd.conf for Apache accordingly.

 

Code Block
Starting httpd: httpd: apr_sockaddr_info_get() failed for nmis-dev
httpd(apache2) : Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName

Ensure Security settings will allow you to access the web server

For the purpose of this guide we will just disable security settings, this may not be the correct answer for you depending on your situation

IPTables

We will just disable ip tables, on Redhat/CentOS

Code Block
service iptables stop #make sure the service isn't running
chkconfig iptables off

SELinux

Again, just turn it off.  Edit /etc/selinux/config

Code Block
#change this line:
SELINUX=enforcing
#to this: 
SELINUX=disabled

You can reboot now, or you can step SELINUX with the following command.

Code Block
themeEmacs
 echo 0 >/selinux/enforce

 

Quick Testing

Now, fire up your favourite Web browser (mine's Konqueror) and surf to your server. The URL will be "http://yourhostname.domain.tld/cgi-nmis8/nmiscgi.pl". Of course, if you have no DNS or hosts lookup for this box yet, just replace "yourhostname.domain.tld" with your new NMIS server's IP address.

You should get the NMIS Dashboard. If you don't, then check to make sure you included the "/cgi-nmis8/nmiscgi.pl" in the URL. Yep, I've made that mistake too many times to count. It's easy to forget, so make sure you include it.

Congratulations! It works, and you're almost done. We're in the home stretch.

NMIS Crontab Configuration

We ensured crontab was installed above, now we'll make sure it's running:

Code Block
chkconfig crond on
/etc/init.d/crond start

Debian/Ubuntu: nothing  needs to be done. Cron is automatically started.

 Now we have to tell NMIS to run the data collection every so often. For that, we use a cron job. Edit root's crontab ("crontab -e" at the root shell), like so. Remember to change the first line, the "MAILTO" line, to contain your actual email address.

 

Code Block
MAILTO=WhoeverYouAre@yourdomain.tld
######################################################
# NMIS8 Cronfig
######################################################
# Run Statistics Collection
*/5 * * * * /usr/local/nmis8/bin/nmis.pl type=collect mthread=true maxthreads=10
###################################################### 
# Run Summary Update more frequently 
*/3 * * * * /usr/local/nmis8/bin/nmis.pl type=summary
##################################################### 
# Run the interfaces 4 times an hour with Thresholding on!!!
*/15 * * * * nice /usr/local/nmis8/bin/nmis.pl type=threshold
######################################################
# Run the update once a day
30 20 * * * nice /usr/local/nmis8/bin/nmis.pl type=update mthread=true maxthreads=10
######################################################
# Check to rotate the logs 4am every day UTC
5 20 * * * /usr/sbin/logrotate /usr/local/nmis8/conf/logrotate.conf
##################################################
# save this crontab every day
0 8 * * * crontab -l > /usr/local/nmis8/conf/crontab.root
# These file locations for are Red Hat.
#0 8 * * * cp /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf /usr/local/nmis8/conf/httpd.conf.backup
#0 8 * * * cp /etc/httpd/conf.d/00nmis.conf /usr/local/nmis8/conf/00nmis.conf.backup
#0 8 * * * cat /etc/syslog.conf > /usr/local/nmis8/conf/syslog.conf.backup
# These file locations are for Debian/Ubuntu
#0 8 * * * cp /etc/apache2/apache2.conf /usr/local/nmis8/conf/httpd.conf.backup
#0 8 * * * cp /etc/apache2/sites-available/00nmis.conf /usr/local/nmis8/conf/00nmis.conf.backup
#0 8 * * * cat /etc/rsyslog/50-default.conf > /usr/local/nmis8/conf/syslog.conf.backup

 

Again, this file was originally generated for Red Hat / CentOS. The lines to change for other distros (e. g. 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. Note that crontab -e on most GNU/Linux distros uses the traditional "vi" editor, whereas on Debian, "nano" is used.

Note that there is a reference in this crontab to a <nmisdir>/conf/logrotate.conf file. That file contains a reference to <nmisdir>/logs/ciscopix.log. This is for those who run Cisco PIX/ASA Firewalls. Unfortunately, this file is not in the tarball for NMIS, so you'll get a non-fatal "Hey, there's no ciscopix.log file for me to logrotate!" every day. Fortunately, that's easy to fix.

 

Code Block
touch <nmisdir>/logs/ciscopix.log

 

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. That would be the NMIS development team and Tobias Oetiker.


SNMPD, Net-SNMP and Testing your Configuration

NMIS8 has been shipped with two nodes configured for collection, to prove it is all working, one is a pingonly node which is ping of the localhost, and the other is localhost using SNMP, and in the <nmisdir>/conf/snmpd.conf is what you need to get it working.

Because you have already installed NET-SNMP earlier, you just need to backup that config and move in the NMIS sample one, you should modify this accordingly to secure the SNMP read access according to your organisations security policy.

 

Code Block
cd /usr/local/nmis8
mv /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf.orig
mv /etc/snmp/snmptrapd.conf /etc/snmp/snmptrapd.conf.orig
cp install/snmpd.conf /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf
cp install/snmptrapd.conf /etc/snmp
cp install/snmptrapd.options /etc/sysconfig/snmptrapd.options # for CentOS/Red Hat only

Debian/Ubuntu

 The last command in the list above will fail as there is no /etc/sysconfig directory on this platform.  Instead the snmptrap service is started by the snmpd service, and is enabled by updating the file /etc/default/snmpd:

Code Block
TRAPDRUN=yes

 

Auto Start SNMP Daemons

Ensure that you tell Linux to start SNMPD automatically

 

Code Block
/sbin/chkconfig snmpd on
/sbin/chkconfig snmptrapd on

Debian/Ubuntu - this is start both snmp and snmptrap services

 

Code Block
sysv-rc-conf snmpd on
service snmpd start  

 

Start SNMPD Manually

The first time you can start it manually.

 

Code Block
/etc/init.d/snmpd start
/etc/init.d/snmptrapd start

 

Run a Test Update

With everything else done, you can run a test update

 

Code Block
bin/nmis.pl type=update node=localhost debug=true

 

The output will look something like

 

Code Block
 NMIS version 8.1.1
09:24:29 runThreads, Starting
09:24:31 runThreads, tables loaded
09:24:31 runThreads, Kernel name of NMIS server is linux
09:24:31 runDaemons, Starting
09:24:31 runDaemons, Finished
09:24:31 runThreads, INFO start of update process
09:24:31 doUpdate, ================================
09:24:31 doUpdate, Starting, node localhost
09:24:31 init, info of node=localhost loaded
09:24:31 init, info of nmis-system loaded
09:24:31 getNodeCfg, cfg of node=localhost found
09:24:31 init, cfg of node=localhost loaded
09:24:31 loadModel, INFO, model Model loaded
09:24:31 initsnmp, snmp for node=localhost initialized
09:24:31 runPing, Starting localhost (127.0.0.1) with timeout=300 retries=3 packet=56
09:24:34 runPing, localhost is PINGABLE min/avg/max = 0.036/0.070/0.121 ms loss=0%
09:24:34 checkEvent, event localhost-node_down- marked for UP notify and delete
09:24:34 writeHashtoFile, write data to /usr/local/nmis8/var/nmis-event.nmis
09:24:34 getLevelLogEvent, node=localhost, event=Node Up, role=distribution not found in class="event" of model=
09:24:34 runPing, Finished with exit=1
09:24:34 getNodeInfo, Starting
09:24:34 getNodeInfo, sysObjectId=1.3.6.1.4.1.8072.3.2.10, sysObjectName=enterprises.8072.3.2.10
09:24:34 getNodeInfo, sysDescr=Linux nmis-dev 2.6.18-194.el5 #1 SMP Fri Apr 2 14:58:35 EDT 2010 i686
09:24:34 getNodeInfo, oid index 8072, Vendor is net-snmp
09:24:34 selectNodeModel, INFO, Model 'net-snmp' found for Vendor net-snmp
09:24:34 loadModel, INFO, model Model-net-snmp loaded
09:24:34 getDNSloc, Starting
09:24:34 getDNSloc, Finished
09:24:34 checkPIX, Starting
09:24:34 checkPIX, Finished
09:24:34 getNodeInfo, Finished with exit=1
09:24:34 getIntfInfo, Starting
09:24:34 getIntfInfo, Get Interface Info of node localhost, model net-snmp
09:24:34 getIntfInfo, ifIndex=1 ifDescr=lo ifType=softwareLoopback ifAdminStatus=up ifOperStatus=up ifSpeed=10000000
09:24:34 getIntfInfo, ifIndex=2 ifDescr=eth0 ifType=ethernetCsmacd ifAdminStatus=up ifOperStatus=up ifSpeed=1000000000
09:24:34 getIntfInfo, ifIndex=3 ifDescr=sit0 ifType=tunnel ifAdminStatus=down ifOperStatus=down ifSpeed=0
09:24:34 getIntfInfo, Getting Device IP Address Table
09:24:34 getIntfInfo, ifIndex=1, addr=127.0.0.1 mask=255.0.0.0
09:24:34 getIntfInfo, ifIndex=2, addr=192.168.1.7 mask=255.255.255.0
09:24:34 getIntfInfo, ifIndex 1, collect=false, found softwareLoopback in ifType
09:24:34 getIntfInfo, ifIndex 2, collect=true
09:24:34 getIntfInfo, ifIndex 3, collect=false, ifAdminStatus eq down|testing|null
09:24:34 getIntfInfo, Finished
09:24:34 doUpdate, node=localhost role=distribution type=server
09:24:34 doUpdate, vendor=net-snmp model=net-snmp interfaces=3
09:24:34 getEnvInfo, Starting
09:24:34 getEnvInfo, Get Environment Info of node localhost, model net-snmp
09:24:34 getEnvInfo, No class 'environment' declared in Model
09:24:34 getEnvInfo, Finished
09:24:34 getCBQoS, no collecting (none) for node localhost
09:24:34 getCalls, no collecting for node localhost
09:24:34 runReach, Starting node localhost, type=server
09:24:34 runReach, Outage for localhost is
09:24:34 runReach, Getting Interface Utilisation Health
09:24:34 getSummaryStats, Start type=interface, index=2, start=-15 minutes, end=1300973074
09:24:34 getTypeName, ERROR (localhost) type=interface not found in graphtype table
09:24:34 getDBName, ERROR (localhost) database name not found graphtype=interface (section=0), index=2, item=
09:24:34 runReach, Intf Summary in= out= intsumm=200 count=1
09:24:34 runReach, Calculation of health=100
09:24:34 runReach, Reachability and Metric Stats Summary
09:24:34 runReach, collect=true (Node table)
09:24:34 runReach, ping=100 (normalised)
09:24:34 runReach, cpuWeight=100 (normalised)
09:24:34 runReach, memWeight=100 (normalised)
09:24:34 runReach, intWeight=100.00 (100 less the actual total interface utilisation)
09:24:34 runReach, responseWeight=100 (normalised)
09:24:34 runReach, total number of interfaces=2
09:24:34 runReach, total number of interfaces up=0
09:24:34 runReach, total number of interfaces collected=1
09:24:34 runReach, total number of interfaces coll. up=
09:24:34 runReach, availability=100
09:24:34 runReach, cpu=
09:24:34 runReach, health=100
09:24:34 runReach, intfColUp=
09:24:34 runReach, intfCollect=1
09:24:34 runReach, intfTotal=2
09:24:34 runReach, intfUp=0
09:24:34 runReach, loss=0
09:24:34 runReach, mem=100
09:24:34 runReach, operCount=
09:24:34 runReach, operStatus=
09:24:34 runReach, reachability=100
09:24:34 runReach, responsetime=0.070
09:24:34 updateRRD, Starting RRD Update Process, type=health, index=,item=
09:24:34 getFileName, filename of type=health is /usr/local/nmis8/database/health/server/localhost-reach.rrd
09:24:34 updateRRD, file=/usr/local/nmis8/database/health/server/localhost-reach.rrd not found, try nmis4 format
09:24:34 getFileName, filename of type=health is /usr/local/nmis8/database/health/server/127.0.0.1-reach.rrd
09:24:34 createRRD, Starting
09:24:34 createRRD, check and/or create RRD database /usr/local/nmis8/database/health/server/localhost-reach.rrd
09:24:34 optionsRRD, type health
09:24:34 optionsRRD, INFO, using database format 'default'
09:24:34 createRRD, options to create database /usr/local/nmis8/database/health/server/localhost-reach.rrd
09:24:34 createRRD, -b
09:24:34 createRRD, 1300973070
09:24:34 createRRD, -s
09:24:34 createRRD, 300
09:24:34 createRRD, DS:availability:GAUGE:900:0:100
09:24:34 createRRD, DS:health:GAUGE:900:0:100
09:24:34 createRRD, DS:intfColUp:GAUGE:900:0:U
09:24:34 createRRD, DS:intfCollect:GAUGE:900:0:U
09:24:34 createRRD, DS:intfTotal:GAUGE:900:0:U
09:24:34 createRRD, DS:intfUp:GAUGE:900:0:U
09:24:34 createRRD, DS:loss:GAUGE:900:0:100
09:24:34 createRRD, DS:reachability:GAUGE:900:0:100
09:24:34 createRRD, DS:responsetime:GAUGE:900:0:U
09:24:34 createRRD, RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:1:2304
09:24:34 createRRD, RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:6:1536
09:24:34 createRRD, RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:24:2268
09:24:34 createRRD, RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:288:1890
09:24:34 createRRD, RRA:MAX:0.5:1:2304
09:24:34 createRRD, RRA:MAX:0.5:6:1536
09:24:34 createRRD, RRA:MAX:0.5:24:2268
09:24:34 createRRD, RRA:MAX:0.5:288:1890
09:24:34 createRRD, RRA:MIN:0.5:1:2304
09:24:34 createRRD, RRA:MIN:0.5:6:1536
09:24:34 createRRD, RRA:MIN:0.5:24:2268
09:24:34 createRRD, RRA:MIN:0.5:288:1890
09:24:34 createRRD, INFO (localhost) created RRD /usr/local/nmis8/database/health/server/localhost-reach.rrd
09:24:35 createRRD, Finished
09:24:35 updateRRD, DS intfTotal:intfColUp:intfCollect:health:intfUp:availability:reachability:responsetime:loss
09:24:35 updateRRD, value N:2:0:1:100:0:100:100:0.070:0
09:24:35 runReach, Finished
09:24:35 writeHashtoFile, write data to /usr/local/nmis8/var/localhost-view.nmis
09:24:35 writeHashtoFile, write data to /usr/local/nmis8/var/localhost-node.nmis
09:24:35 doUpdate, Finished
09:24:35 runThreads, ### continue normally ###
09:24:35 runThreads, === debug output suppressed with debug=1 ===
 
09:24:35 End of bin/nmis.pl Processed 1 nodes ran for 6 seconds.

Run a Test Collection

With everything else done, you can run a test update

 

Code Block
# bin/nmis.pl type=collect node=localhost debug=true

 

The output will look something like

 

Code Block
themeEmacs
NMIS version 8.1.1
09:27:47 runThreads, Starting
09:27:47 runThreads, tables loaded
09:27:47 runThreads, Kernel name of NMIS server is linux
09:27:47 runDaemons, Starting
09:27:47 runDaemons, Finished
09:27:47 doCollect, ================================
09:27:47 doCollect, Starting, node localhost
09:27:47 init, info of node=localhost loaded
09:27:47 init, info of nmis-system loaded
09:27:47 getNodeCfg, cfg of node=localhost found
09:27:47 init, cfg of node=localhost loaded
09:27:47 loadModel, INFO, model Model-net-snmp loaded
09:27:47 initsnmp, snmp for node=localhost initialized
09:27:47 doCollect, node=localhost role=distribution type=server
09:27:47 doCollect, vendor=net-snmp model=net-snmp interfaces=3
09:27:47 runPing, Starting localhost (127.0.0.1) with timeout=300 retries=3 packet=56
09:27:49 runPing, localhost is PINGABLE min/avg/max = 0.026/0.034/0.041 ms loss=0%
09:27:49 runPing, Finished with exit=1
09:27:49 updateNodeInfo, Starting Update Node Info, node localhost
09:27:49 updateNodeInfo, sysUpTime: Old=0:05:49 New=0:06:03
09:27:49 checkPIX, Starting
09:27:49 checkPIX, Finished
09:27:49 updateNodeInfo, Finished with exit=1
09:27:49 getNodeData, Starting Node get data, node localhost
09:27:49 getValues, no oid loaded for section=
09:27:49 getIntfData, Starting Interface get data, node localhost
09:27:49 getIntfData, lo: ifIndex=1, was => OperStatus=up, ifAdminStatus=up, Collect=false
09:27:49 getIntfData, NOT Collected: lo: ifIndex=1, OperStatus=up, ifAdminStatus=up, Interface Collect=false
09:27:49 getIntfData, eth0: ifIndex=2, was => OperStatus=up, ifAdminStatus=up, Collect=true
09:27:49 getIntfData, collect interface index=2
09:27:49 getIntfData, status now admin=up, oper=up was admin=up, oper=up
09:27:49 getIntfData, rrdData section interface, ds ifOperStatus, value=100, option=gauge,0:100
09:27:49 getIntfData, rrdData section interface, ds ifInOctets, value=14431330, option=counter,0:U
09:27:49 getIntfData, rrdData section interface, ds ifOutOctets, value=707043, option=counter,0:U
09:27:49 updateRRD, Starting RRD Update Process, type=interface, index=2,item=
09:27:49 getFileName, filename of type=interface is /usr/local/nmis8/database/interface/server/localhost/localhost-eth0.rrd
09:27:49 updateRRD, database /usr/local/nmis8/database/interface/server/localhost/localhost-eth0.rrd exists and is R/W
09:27:49 updateRRD, DS ifOperStatus:ifInOctets:ifOutOctets
09:27:49 updateRRD, value N:100:14431330:707043
09:27:49 getSummaryStats, Start type=interface, index=2, start=-6 hours, end=1300973269
09:27:49 getDBName, database name=/usr/local/nmis8/database/interface/server/localhost/localhost-eth0.rrd
09:27:49 getSummaryStats, name=availability, index=2, value=NaN
09:27:49 getSummaryStats, name=inputUtil, index=2, value=NaN
09:27:49 getSummaryStats, name=outputUtil, index=2, value=NaN
09:27:49 getSummaryStats, name=totalUtil, index=2, value=NaN
09:27:49 getSummaryStats, name=inputBits, index=2, value=NaN
09:27:49 getSummaryStats, name=outputBits, index=2, value=NaN
09:27:49 getIntfData, sit0: ifIndex=3, was => OperStatus=down, ifAdminStatus=down, Collect=false
09:27:49 getIntfData, NOT Collected: sit0: ifIndex=3, OperStatus=down, ifAdminStatus=down, Interface Collect=false
09:27:49 getIntfData, : ifIndex=, was => OperStatus=, ifAdminStatus=, Collect=
09:27:49 getIntfData, NOT Collected: : ifIndex=, OperStatus=, ifAdminStatus=, Interface Collect=
09:27:49 getIntfData, : ifIndex=, was => OperStatus=, ifAdminStatus=, Collect=
09:27:49 getIntfData, NOT Collected: : ifIndex=, OperStatus=, ifAdminStatus=, Interface Collect=
09:27:49 getIntfData, : ifIndex=, was => OperStatus=, ifAdminStatus=, Collect=
09:27:49 getIntfData, NOT Collected: : ifIndex=, OperStatus=, ifAdminStatus=, Interface Collect=
09:27:49 getIntfData, : ifIndex=, was => OperStatus=, ifAdminStatus=, Collect=
09:27:49 getIntfData, NOT Collected: : ifIndex=, OperStatus=, ifAdminStatus=, Interface Collect=
09:27:49 getIntfData, Finished
09:27:49 getEnvData, Starting
09:27:49 getEnvData, Get Environment Data of node localhost, model net-snmp
09:27:49 getEnvData, No class 'environment' declared in Model
09:27:49 getEnvData, Finished
09:27:49 getCBQoS, no collecting (none) for node localhost
09:27:49 getCalls, no collecting for node localhost
09:27:49 runServer, Starting server device/storage collection, node localhost
09:27:49 getValues, collect of section device skipped by indexed section
09:27:49 getValues, collect of type cpu skipped by NON indexed section, check this Model
09:27:49 runServer, device Descr=network interface sit0, Type=1.3.6.1.2.1.25.3.1.4
09:27:49 getValues, collect of type cpu skipped by NON indexed section, check this Model
09:27:49 runServer, device Descr=Guessing that there's a floating point co-processor, Type=1.3.6.1.2.1.25.3.1.12
09:27:49 getValues, collect of type cpu skipped by NON indexed section, check this Model
09:27:49 runServer, device Descr=SCSI disk (/dev/sda), Type=1.3.6.1.2.1.25.3.1.6
09:27:49 getValues, collect of type cpu skipped by NON indexed section, check this Model
09:27:49 runServer, device Descr=network interface eth0, Type=1.3.6.1.2.1.25.3.1.4
09:27:49 getValues, collect of type cpu skipped by NON indexed section, check this Model
09:27:49 runServer, device Descr=VMware Virtual IDE CDROM Drive, Type=1.3.6.1.2.1.25.3.1.6
09:27:49 getValues, collect of type cpu skipped by NON indexed section, check this Model
09:27:49 runServer, device Descr=network interface lo, Type=1.3.6.1.2.1.25.3.1.4
09:27:49 getValues, collect of type cpu skipped by NON indexed section, check this Model
09:27:49 runServer, device Descr=Angel___3300_Series@192.168.1.8, Type=1.3.6.1.2.1.25.3.1.5
09:27:49 getValues, collect of type cpu skipped by NON indexed section, check this Model
09:27:49 runServer, device Descr=GenuineIntel: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9550 @ 2.66GHz, Type=1.3.6.1.2.1.25.3.1.3
09:27:49 runServer, cpu Load=0.00, Descr=GenuineIntel: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9550 @ 2.66GHz
09:27:49 updateRRD, Starting RRD Update Process, type=hrsmpcpu, index=768,item=
09:27:49 getFileName, filename of type=hrsmpcpu is /usr/local/nmis8/database/health/server/localhost-hrsmpcpu768.rrd
09:27:49 updateRRD, database /usr/local/nmis8/database/health/server/localhost-hrsmpcpu768.rrd exists and is R/W
09:27:49 updateRRD, DS hrCpuLoad
09:27:49 updateRRD, value N:3
09:27:49 runServer, storage Type=1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.1.4, Size=5078687, Used=44473, Units=4096
09:27:49 updateRRD, Starting RRD Update Process, type=hrdisk, index=6,item=
09:27:49 getFileName, filename of type=hrdisk is /usr/local/nmis8/database/health/server/localhost-hrdisk6.rrd
09:27:49 updateRRD, database /usr/local/nmis8/database/health/server/localhost-hrdisk6.rrd exists and is R/W
09:27:49 updateRRD, DS hrDiskSize:hrDiskUsed
09:27:49 updateRRD, value N:20802301952:182161408
09:27:49 runServer, storage Type=1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.1.3, Size=4194296, Used=0, Units=1024
09:27:49 updateRRD, Starting RRD Update Process, type=hrvmem, index=,item=
09:27:49 getFileName, filename of type=hrvmem is /usr/local/nmis8/database/health/server/localhost-hrvmem.rrd
09:27:49 updateRRD, database /usr/local/nmis8/database/health/server/localhost-hrvmem.rrd exists and is R/W
09:27:49 updateRRD, DS hrVMemUsed:hrVMemSize
09:27:49 updateRRD, value N:0:4294959104
09:27:49 runServer, storage Type=1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.1.4, Size=101086, Used=12273, Units=1024
09:27:49 runServer, storage Type=1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.1.2, Size=1035108, Used=968328, Units=1024
09:27:49 updateRRD, Starting RRD Update Process, type=hrmem, index=,item=
09:27:49 getFileName, filename of type=hrmem is /usr/local/nmis8/database/health/server/localhost-hrmem.rrd
09:27:49 updateRRD, database /usr/local/nmis8/database/health/server/localhost-hrmem.rrd exists and is R/W
09:27:49 updateRRD, DS hrMemUsed:hrMemSize
09:27:49 updateRRD, value N:991567872:1059950592
09:27:49 runServer, storage Type=1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.1.4, Size=0, Used=0, Units=0
09:27:49 runServer, storage Type=1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.1.4, Size=11649262, Used=876570, Units=4096
09:27:49 updateRRD, Starting RRD Update Process, type=hrdisk, index=4,item=
09:27:49 getFileName, filename of type=hrdisk is /usr/local/nmis8/database/health/server/localhost-hrdisk4.rrd
09:27:49 updateRRD, database /usr/local/nmis8/database/health/server/localhost-hrdisk4.rrd exists and is R/W
09:27:49 updateRRD, DS hrDiskSize:hrDiskUsed
09:27:49 updateRRD, value N:47715377152:3590430720
09:27:49 runServer, storage Type=1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.1.1, Size=1035108, Used=172032, Units=1024
09:27:49 runServer, storage Type=1.3.6.1.2.1.25.2.1.4, Size=2539342, Used=240465, Units=4096
09:27:49 updateRRD, Starting RRD Update Process, type=hrdisk, index=5,item=
09:27:49 getFileName, filename of type=hrdisk is /usr/local/nmis8/database/health/server/localhost-hrdisk5.rrd
09:27:49 updateRRD, database /usr/local/nmis8/database/health/server/localhost-hrdisk5.rrd exists and is R/W
09:27:49 updateRRD, DS hrDiskSize:hrDiskUsed
09:27:49 updateRRD, value N:10401144832:984944640
09:27:49 runServer, Finished
09:27:49 runServices, Starting Services stats, node=localhost, nodeType=server