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    <td width="33%">Last updated 21 June 2001</td>
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      <p align="center"><a href="http://www.sins.com.au/nmis/nmis-features.html">Online
      Version</a></p>
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      <p align="center"><a href="http://www.sins.com.au/nmis/">NMIS Home Page</a></p>
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    <td width="100%" colspan="3">The following is a list of NMIS features.&nbsp; This is by
      no means comprehensive but provides and idea of what NMIS can do.
      <p><b>General</b></p>
      <ul>
        <li>The entire network is summarised into a single metric, which indicates reachability, availability and health of all network devices being managed by NMIS.</li>
        <li>Summary page for entire network with reachability, availability, health, response time metrics.</li>
        <li>Summary pages of devices including device information, health graph, and interface summary.</li>
        <li>Can be distributed across multiple &quot;polling servers&quot; by
          using included programs.</li>
        <li>Policy based event and escalation.</li>
      </ul>
      <p><b>Performance and Fault</b></p>
      <ul>
        <li>Integrated Fault and Performance Management.</li>
        <li>Color coded events, status for at a glance interpretation.</li>
        <li>Graphing of Interface, CPU, Memory stats for Cisco Routers and Switches.</li>
        <li>Graphs can be drilled into.</li>
        <li>Graphs produced on the fly.</li>
        <li>Graphs can have varying lengths from 2hours to 1 year.</li>
        <li>Interface statistics are returned in Utilisation and/or bits per second.</li>
        <li>Response time graphed and metrics for health and availability generated from statistics collected.</li>
        <li>Threshold engine which send alerts on certain thresholds.</li>
        <li>Escalation subsystem based on device groups which provides a great
          deal of granularity.</li>
        <li>Varying event levels for different device types.</li>
        <li>Alert events are issued for device down or interface down.</li>
        <li>Event levels are set according to how important the device is.</li>
        <li>Events are "State full" including thresholds, meaning that an event is only issued once. </li>
        <li>Notification engine can be expanded to handle any "command line" notification method, including email, paging, signs, speakers, etc.</li>
        <li>Integrated logging facility to view NMIS events and syslog messages.</li>
        <li>A list of current events is available and there is an escalation level and time the event has been active.</li>
        <li>Event logging</li>
        <li>Outage time calculated for each down event</li>
        <li>Planned outages can be put in so alerts are not issued</li>
      </ul>
      <p><b>Configuration</b></p>
      <ul>
        <li>Find function which searches interface information for node name,
          interface name, description, type, IP address, for matching
          interfaces.</li>
        <li>Interface information includes IP address information.</li>
        <li>Dynamic handling of ifIndex changes and difficult SNMP interface
          handling</li>
        <li>Checking of changes to device details.</li>
        <li>NMIS stores contacts and location information which links to the
          SNMP sysContact and sysLocation MIBS.</li>
        <li>Produces DNS and Host records from the collected IP addressing
          information</li>
        <li>Produces DNS LOC records for &quot;visible&quot; traceroute
          utilities.</li>
      </ul>
      <p><b>Reporting</b></p>
      <ul>
        <li>Reports for utilisation, outages, etc</li>
        <li>Snapshot and dynamic reporting for metrics on all devices and groups
          of devices.</li>
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