NMIS8 Vendor and Device Support

NMIS is a Network Management Information System, providing critical information about the IT Infrastructure, including network, firewalls, servers, UPS, sensors and basically anything which supports SNMP.  NMIS is a complete network management system, the software was open sourced in 1999.

You can download NMIS and other software from Opmantek.

Introduction

NMIS is a complete management system which collects fault, performance and basic inventory/configuration data from routers, switches, servers, firewalls, facilities (UPS, AC/CRACK, Sensors), and anything which has an SNMP agent.  NMIS is highly extensible, using device models to define what is collected from devices, and how events are handled.

In summary, NMIS supports any device which supports SNMP with "Default" models, this is called standard support, this includes Default models for SNMPv1 only devices and newer SNMP agents which support the High Capacity agent.  Standard support includes performance and fault collection and alerting of interface statistics and IP packet activity.  Device support NMIS has been extended for various vendors and products, this includes performance and fault collection, alerting and thresholding on additional information like CPU, memory, disk, services, storage, sessions, packets, temperature, and many other things.

Extended device support can be added to NMIS without coding by using the modelling system to tell NMIS what a device is and what MIBS need to be collected and stored.

Vendors Supported by NMIS

 

Any product which supports SNMP and the SNMP standards is supported by NMIS, the following table lists some of the vendors supported by NMIS, and if there is standard or extended support.  NMIS has exceptional multi-vendor capabilities and can actually manage equipment from over 35,000 vendors.  A more complete list of SNMP vendors is available at Network Management System NMIS Supported Vendors SNMP.

Contact Opmantek for information on support for any vendors not listed here - it's almost 100% certain that NMIS will support the one you're wondering about.

VendorStandardExtended
3ComYesYes
A10 NetworksYes 
Alcatel-LucentYesYes
Apple OSXYesYes
Bay NetworksYesYes
BrocadeYes 
CeragonYes 
CheckpointYes 
CiscoYesYes
D-LinkYes 
Emerson Energy SystemsYesYes
EricssonYesYes
Extreme NetworksYes 
F5Yes 
Free BSDYesYes
FoundryYesYes
HPYesYes
HP UXYesYes
IBM AIXYesYes
Ironport SystemsYes 
JuniperYesYes
LantronixYes 
LinuxYesYes
Merlin GerinYesYes
MicrosoftYesYes
NetgearYesYes
Newport NetworksYes 
Nokia SiemensYes 
NortelYesYes
Palo Alto NetworksYesYes
ProceraYes 
Proxim WirelessYes 
QNAPYesYes
RADYes 
RedbackYesYes
RiverbedYesYes
RiverstoneYesYes
ServersCheckYesYes
Sun SolarisYesYes
SynopticsYesYes
TransmodeYes 
ZTEYesYes
ZyXELYesYes

Standard Support Options

SNMP is the simple network management protocol, and the protocol itself is very simple, a little more complex is the MIB's Management Information Base, these are defined in ASN.1 and include all sorts of rich functionalities required when dealing with large data structures which are available through SNMP.

Because of the differences in standards and timings, NMIS includes a default model for supporting devices, which is called Model-Default, and for devices which only support SNMP Version 1, there is a model called Model-SNMPv1, and for devices which have improved SNMP support including 64 bit counters there is a model called Model-Default-HC (High Capacity).

The model can be changed when editing a node and changing automatic to the required model, but you should verify your update and collection.