JFFNMS Manual

Craig Small csmall(AT)small.dropbear.id.au
Javier Szyszlican javier(AT)szysz.com

March 29, 2008

• Introduction
• What is a NMS
• Features
• Definitions
• Polling and Consolidation
• Getting Help
• Using JFFNMS
• Overview of JFFNMS Screen
• Profiles
• Event Viewer
• Performance Graphs
• Installing jffnms
• Getting JFFNMS
• Hardware Requirements
• Required Packages
• Initial Configuration
• Cron Jobs
• Installing SNMP Extension
• JFFNMS Global Setup
• Administrating JFFNMS
• Reporting
• Configuring JFFNMS
• The Consolidation Process
• Host Administration
• Zones
• Hosts
• Interfaces
• Network Discovery
• Hosts Saved Config
• SubMaps
• Satellites
• Users and Customers
• Customers
• Users
• Event Configuration
• Event Severities
• Event Types
• Events from Syslog messages
• Alarm States
• SNMP Traps
• How JFFNMS processes traps
• SNMP Trap Receivers Table
• Configuring New Traps
• Polling Configuration
• Interface Types
• Poller Groups
• Poller Items
• Backend Items
• Graph Types
• Autodiscovery Policies
• Triggers and Actions
• Creating Triggers
• Trigger Rules
• Actions
• Putting it all together
• Deactivating Triggers
• Trigger Logs
• Tools
• Configuring Event Filters
• Filters
• Filter Conditions
• Filter Fields
• Expanding JFFNMS
• Design Prework
• Creating a New Interface Type
• Generic Discovery Plugins
• Generic Poller Plugins
• Generic Backend plugins
• Writing a new Poller
• Writing a Graph Plugin
• Writing a Discovery Plugin
• Creating a simple SNMP-based Interface Type
• Creating more complex Interface Types
• Creating a New Action
• Creating New SLAs
• Host Config Commands
• Common Parameters
• ICMP Interface Example
• An ICMP message counter
• Determining what OID to use
• Configuring a Poller Item
• Configuring the Poller Group
• Configuring Interface Type
• Adding Interface Type Fields
• Fixing Poller Group
• Checking the discovery works
• Checking the poller works
• Writing the graph plugin
• Creating new Graph Type
• Working with external programs
• SNMP Traps
• Syslog
• Smokeping
• Interface Types
• Apache Web Server
• BGP Peers
• Cisco SA Agent
• IIS Webserver
• Windows System
• TCP Ports
• Storage
• Solaris System Info
• Reachability
• Physical Interfaces
• blah
• Satellites
• Relationships between Satellites
• Error Messages
• Running the components on the command line
• Database Problems
• Problems with PHP
• Problems with Poller
• Problems with Hosts Configuration
• Problems with Consolidator
• Problems with Graphs
• Random stuff, to go somewhere
• Tables of values
• User Profiles
• About this document
• Contributing to this document
• Copyright and License
• The GNU General Public License
• Appendix: How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs