Tired of typing long command lines when troubleshooting devices.  Introducing the NMIS Shell.

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Installation

You will need to have NMIS 9.4.0 or greater.

Run the following command, the target needs to be in your PATH, so you could link it to somewhere else.

ln -s /usr/local/nmis9/bin/nmis.sh /usr/local/bin/nmis

Usage

Run a Collect with Debug3

Now you can use a much simplified syntax to collect things when the support team ask.  For example:

nmis NODENAME collect debug3

This will schedule an NMIS collect on the node named NODENAME and create a debug file in /tmp/NODENAME-timestamp.pid.log, e.g. /tmp/server1-1670882070.75145.log

The equivalent command is:

/usr/local/nmis9/bin/nmis-cli act=schedule job.type=collect job.priority=1 job.node=NODENAME job.verbosity=3 job.output=/tmp/NODENAME job.force=true

Run an Update with Debug3

Now you can use a much simplified syntax to collect things when the support team ask.  For example:

nmis NODENAME update debug3

Where is the Debug File?

Look for the debug logs in /tmp, the following command is a handy one which prints out in reverse timestamp order, so the last file is the most recently updated.

ls -lrt /tmp/NODENAME*

e.g. the output looks like:

keiths@volla:~$ ls -lrt /tmp/server1*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   18971 Dec 13 07:54 /tmp/server1-1670882070.75145.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  123727 Dec 13 08:02 /tmp/server1-1670882545.38093.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  923195 Dec 13 08:03 /tmp/server1-1670882602.86851.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  123716 Dec 13 08:06 /tmp/server1-1670882788.25181.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1032937 Dec 13 08:10 /tmp/server1-1670883011.61026.log