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<div class="heading">NMIS FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions</div>

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    <td width="33%">Last updated 21 June 2001</td>
    <td width="33%">
      <p align="center"><a href="http://www.sins.com.au/nmis/nmis-faq.html">Online
      Version</a></p>
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    <td width="33%">
      <p align="center"><a href="http://www.sins.com.au/nmis/">NMIS Home Page</a></p>
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    <ul>
      <li><a href="http://www.sins.com.au/sins/nmis/">NMIS Home Page</a>&nbsp;</li>
      <li><a href="#tips">Tips</a></li>
      <li><a href="#filesize">File size</a></li>
      <li><a href="#interfacefile">What is the format for the interfaces file?</a></li>
      <li><a href="#loadoids_file">There are problems with the loadoids_file subroutine?</a></li>
      <li><a href="#load_mibs">How do I add MIBS to NMIS?</a></li>
      <li><a href="#ping">I am having problems with Ping?</a></li>
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    <p><b>NET-SNMP IS NOT REQUIRED TO RUN NMIS BUT IS REAL HANDY</b>
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    <td width="100%" colspan="3"><a name="tips"></a><b>Tips:</b>
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        <li>Always check your file permissions, the files should be in the right
          group and the HTTP Daemon should be able to read the files as well as
          write some directories.</li>
        <li>Did you check your config against the nmis-sample.conf?</li>
        <li>Did you run &quot;nmis.pl type=config&quot; to make sure the config
          was right?</li>
        <li>Have you run a &quot;nmis.pl type=update debug=true&quot;?</li>
        <li>Have you been running NMIS for more then 1 hour?</li>
      </ul>
      <p>The above things are a couple of things to do before panicking!
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    <td width="100%" colspan="3"><a name="filesize"><b>File Sizes</b></a><b>:</b>
      <p>NMIS creates lots of rrd's Round Robin Databases for each device it
      manages.&nbsp; The current statistics options make the file sizes as
      follows:
      <ul>
        <li>health rrd 2.5megabytes</li>
        <li>reachability rrd 756kilobytes</li>
        <li>interface rrd 568kilobytes.</li>
      </ul>
      <p>All of these RRD's make up the database and for a few routers could
      become quite large quite quick.
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      <a name="interfacefile">Q. What is the format for the &quot;interfaces&quot; file?</a>
      <p>A. The interfaces file is automatically generated by the NMIS
      system.&nbsp; You don't need to manually make these interface files.&nbsp;
      There is also an interfaces.dat which is all the interface data for all
      the devices put together also generated automatically by the update
      process.</td>
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    <td width="100%" colspan="3"><a name="loadoids_file">Q. There are problems with the loadoids_file subroutine?</a>
      <p>A. This is a modification to the SNMP Simple package, SINS has made up
      a distribution of SNMP_Simple availble here <a href="http://www.sins.com.au/public/SNMP_Simple_NMIS.tar.gz">SNMP_Simple_NMIS.tar.gz</a></td>
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    <td width="100%" colspan="3"><a name="load_mibs">Q. How do I add mibs to NMIS?</a>
      <p>A. You need to edit the loadmibs.pl script, put the names of the mibs
      into the script and generate the OID files.&nbsp; Not straight forward if
      you don't program in Perl but quite easy really.&nbsp; Something like:
      <pre>mibdump.pl mibdir=/usr/local/share/snmp/mibs mibs=router outfile=/data/nmis/mibs/cisco-router.oid</pre>
      You will need copies of MIBS, some available at <a href="http://www.sins.com.au/public/">http://www.sins.com.au/public/</a>
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    <td width="100%" colspan="3"><a name="ping">Q. I am having problems with Ping?</a>
      <p>A. NMIS now uses Perl Net::Ping and requires NMIS to be run with Root privileges.&nbsp;
      For backwards compatibility the old routines are included which execute
      Unix Ping. 
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