NMIS - Features
Table of Contents
Last updated 21 March 2001
Features and Benefits
  • The entire network is summarised into a single metric, which indicates reachability, availability and health of all network devices being managed by NMIS.
  • Summary page for entire network with reachability, availability, health, response time metrics.
  • Summary pages of devices including device information, health graph, and interface summary.
  • Integrated Fault and Performance Management.
  • Color coded events, status for at a glance interpretation.
  • Graphing of Interface, CPU, Memory stats for Cisco Routers and Switches.
  • Graphs can be drilled into.
  • Graphs produced on the fly.
  • Graphs can have varying lengths from 2hours to 1 year.
  • Distributed
  • Interface statistics are returned in Utilisation and/or bits per second.
  • Response time graphed and metrics for health and availability generated from statistics collected.
  • Threshold engine which send alerts on certain thresholds.
  • Alert events are issued for device down or interface down.
  • Event levels are set according to how important the device is.
  • Events are "State full" including thresholds, meaning that an event is only issued once. 
  • Notification engine can be expanded to handle any "command line" notification method, including email, paging, signs, speakers, etc.
  • Interface information includes IP address information.
  • A find function which searches interface information for node name, interface name, description, type, IP address, for matching interfaces.
  • A list of current events is available and there is an escalation level and time the event has been active.
  • Events are logged
  • Outage time calculated for each down event
  • Planned outages can be put in so alerts are not issued
  • Reports for utilisation, outages, etc
  • Find functions which search based on strings in interface types and descriptions.
  • Dynamic handling of ifIndex changes and difficult SNMP interface handling
  • Integrated logging facility to view events and syslog messages.