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NMIS uses a subset of the node properties of the commercial Opmantek tools. node_admin.pl act=mktemplate
includes a very brief listing of the most essential ones from NMIS' perspective, and the Common Node Properties wiki page describes most of the important ones in greater detail.
NMIS9 Enhancements
The node admin tool in NMIS9 brings some enhancements.
- The node_admin tool now supports more complete snapshotting of nodes (with
act=dump
), which optionally includes the node's RRD files, events and other historic records.
When importing a thusly dumped node withact=import
it is now possible to have all identifiers localised to the current system (withlocalise_ids=true
); this causes the imported node to be 'adopted' by and become active on the current NMIS system immediately.
This mechanism allows a node to be moved completely between NMIS systems, without losing any of the node's history.