To assist with integrating NMIS with other network management systems, NMIS includes a little script for importing nodes from a zenbatchdump file.
This script handles importing nodes both with SNMPv3 and earlier SNMP support.
The Zenoss bulk import script can be found in /usr/local/nmis8/admin/import_zenoss_backup.pl and there is a sample zenbatchdump file at /usr/local/nmis8/admin/samples/zenbatchdump_sample.txt
The command-line parameters can be viewed by running the script without arguments:
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