Hi guys,
I present the NetXMS video tutorial series!
Full playlists:
NetXMS Basics (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt3aE2eGS5P9L72H82S83MrKx2uz5x8gv)
NetXMS NXSL Tutorials (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt3aE2eGS5P_9SRnOytebbLvf7nSIVNJN) - coming soon™
NetXMS Advanced Tutorials (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt3aE2eGS5P_WE9238mg9tMNMxoed1bRt)
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Videos:
Basics 1: NetXMS intro (http://youtu.be/6-u-UDM7vBU)
Basics 2.1: Installing server on Linux (http://youtu.be/UhHnMDawnKI)
Basics 2.2: Installing server on Windows (http://youtu.be/_p6VUlDtZ9A)
Basics 3: NetXMS client and basic server settings (http://youtu.be/zDnXItizKFs)
Basics 3.1: NetXMS Management Console - Perspectives (https://youtu.be/dX-_ozziZ64)
Basics 4: SNMP and NetXMS Agent (http://youtu.be/imRMiBSWKPY)
Basics 5: Adding nodes to monitor (http://youtu.be/UCTxNvvOyY0)
Basics 6: Objects and basic organization (http://youtu.be/goidskiPZu0)
Basics 7: Polling and poll types (http://youtu.be/OnztYqOsY14)
Basics 8: Data collection (DCIs) (http://youtu.be/fbWkkzI0XNA)
Basics 9: Thresholds and Templates (http://youtu.be/0K8SVz-Sv8c)
Basics 10: Graphs and the Performance Tab (http://youtu.be/CH3rFwz7LwM)
Basics 11: DCI Summary Tables (http://youtu.be/6KN9V_lh7_Y)
Basics 12: Maps and IP/MAC search (http://youtu.be/XXFc_j6qaMM)
Basics 13: Syslog (http://youtu.be/bxqar-29Xhc)
Basics 14: Status Map (https://youtu.be/7aYiPKnCry8)
Basics 15: Dashboards (https://youtu.be/WOnC4RW22Pw)
NXSL 1: NXSL Introduction
NXSL 2: NXSL Security
NXSL 3: Syntax and available functions
NXSL 4: Global Objects and Parameters
NXSL 5: Working with Containers
NXSL 6: Working with SNMP
NXSL 7: Working with NetXMS Agent
NXSL 8: Script DCIs
NXSL 9: Transformation scripts
NXSL 10: Filtering of Instance Discovery and Maps
NXSL 11: Auto-bind for Containers and Templates
NXSL 12: Scripts as Actions
Advanced 1: User management
Advanced 2: Advanced graphs (https://youtu.be/iIAAIUp9Wd0)
Advanced 3: Instance discovery
Advanced 4: Topology - VLANs, Wireless, etc.
Advanced 5: VPN Connector
Advanced 6: Event processing policy
Advanced 7: Sending emails
Advanced 8: NetXMS integration with Pushover (http://youtu.be/ZtsshH4ppPA)
Advanced 9: Service monitoring
Any feedback is appreciated!
Tomas,
I viewed your videos yesterday. They are a very good introduction of the basics. I think it was a good choice to hint at the advanced topics while leaving them out of this "Basics" series.
Some feedback...
- Very Awesome "NetXMS" Intro. Clip... ;)
- Audio for the Intro is louder than your narration.
- On the "Basics 2.1: Installing for Linux" at 05:04", your terminal, using terminal-colors, is showing blue text on black background, which is hard to read. Yes, I know it's not relevant text, since you replace it, but it would help give a "Newbie" to NetXMS a sense of direction, that his "Default" file matches what you show in the video.
I had to dig deep to find any criticism, so I hope you take that as a complement to your much appreciated work. :)
Kind regards.
Cheers,
Tim
Hi,
Thanks for the feedback :)
- That was not done by me. I got it from Victor for usage in the videos.
- I will fix that in future videos.
- Will pick a better color-scheme if any more work is done in the terminal (I dont think more terminal work will be done in the basics series tho).
More videos coming soon... depending on how these are received, I might do an advanced series.
Advanced videos would be welcome, perhaps even a small series just on scripting.
I've also been thinking of doing some videos, or at a minimum documentation for specific use cases.
I know on the MikroTik forums, a few users have been started discussion/threads on using NetXMS, since "The Dude" software they normally use seems to have been stalled for far too long. In fact, that is how I made my way to NetXMS.
Perhaps we may need to solicit some advanced/specific use case topics that people are interested in.
Cheers,
Tomas i think NetXMS really needed your video series where you explain in greater depth topics.
Please continue. You are doing a great job. I have seen all of the videos so far and learned stuff...
Problem with Wiki and NetXMS documentation in general is that i feel like it was being written too quickly and in rush.
But i don't want to criticize, because the software itself is just too great.
3 new videos added to the Basics series today.
Audio should be a bit more leveled between speech and the intro/outro now :)
Any feedback is always appreciated.
Hey There Finaly some more Vids :-)
Thanks for ur Work , preciate that so much .
Maybe if u could do a howto setup the VPN Connectors :-)
Thank u
3 more videos added to the Basics series.
Now taking requests for topics to be covered in the Advanced series!
New to NetXMS, just wanted to say thank you for the videos. Very well made and give a good foundation to get going.
Just wanted to add to the sentiments, these videos are a big part of getting us to look at deploying NetXMS. Look forward to more of them.
Thanks for the effort.
3 more videos added over the last couple of days.
Basics series is now finished and the Advanced series is getting worked on.
As mentioned previously, I am still accepting requests for topics to cover in Advanced, if you guys have any suggestions, let me know.
That could be great to have a section about Network discovery and how to discover nodes behind a proxy and their corresponding parameters in server configuration. I think every sys admin would love to automate his work. ;-)
Tomas, I would like a video tutorial on how to be awesome like you. You've done so much with this, it's a beacon for netXMS. If it weren't for Tomas's help and videos... I would have looked at it, maybe installed it and moved on due to difficulty in figuring out how to use it. I know all of the great things Tomas has done with NetXMS, so I plow ahead know he'll light my path.
hi Tomas,
Totally newbie with linux and trying to get netXMS running on ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
The first video i already stumble. When i get to the part op apt-get search netxms* there are no files found so something is going wrong.
Netxms changed webstructuur but i guess is has to be echo "deb http://packages.netxms.org debian wheezy main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/netxms.list
I do see some notifications like:
Reading package lists... Done
W: The repository 'http://packages.netxms.org debian Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Data from such a repository can't be authenticated and is therefore potentially dangerous to use.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
E: Failed to fetch http://packages.netxms.org/dists/debian/wheezy/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
Any help would be great!
If you turn on annotations in the video, it should tell you how to deal with that :)
damn, I thought I did ???
Will try that.
Do you also have a video for how to setup the MySQL part on the same box as netXMS?
No, but there should be plenty of videos/tutorials on how to setup MySQL on Linux already :)
i guess i had to turn notification off and on before it showed all notifications. now it is showing more info
no luck. key installed:
root@ubuntu:/home/netxms# wget -q -O - packages.netxms.org/netxms.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
OK
but then;
W: The repository 'http://packages.netxms.org debian Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Data from such a repository can't be authenticated and is therefore potentially dangerous to use.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
E: Failed to fetch http://packages.netxms.org/dists/debian/wheezy/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
root@ubuntu:/home/netxms# apt-get install netxms-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package netxms-server
root@ubuntu:/home/netxms#
Please show apt sources.list
would love to, if I know how (really Linux newbie :-\ )
btw this is getting out of hand. perhaps better if moderator moves my part into new thread out of the sticky?
anyone?
some steps in progress. After some digging (for me at least) i found the working command
echo "deb http://packages.netxms.org/debian wheezy main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/netxms.list
wget -q -O - http://packages.netxms.org/netxms.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
apt-get update
apt-cache search netxms*
apt-get install netxms-server
apt-get install netxms-server-mysql => and then an error:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
netxms-server-mysql : Depends: netxms-server (= 1.2.17) but 2.0.5-1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
so i noticed the note and tried apt-get install netxms-dbdrv-mysql
Still no luck. Again:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
netxms-dbdrv-mysql : Depends: libmysqlclient18 (>= 5.5.24+dfsg-1) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Clearly something is wrong, but how to fix? Please help
'netxms-server-mysql' is the legacy package (for usage with 1.2.x).
You should use the 'netxms-dbdrv-mysql' (as you correctly did for the 2nd try).
As to why 'libmysqlclient18' is not installable on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, I dont know.
Alex will probably have to check if there isnt some issues with .deb packaging for 16.04.
I really had my hopes on netXMS but neither the Linux nor the windows versions seems to install :'(
Linux see above, windows stumbles on sql error. Windows fresh install btw. Got the impression that netXMS is not ment to be for me unless someone could help me out with the Linux installation.
Contact me on Skype at t[dot]kirnak[at]atris[dot]sk and I will help you out.
Hi Tomas. Thanks for offer, send you a pm.
Did you guys get to the bottom of this? I've just started a thread with exactly the same problem (not sure why this one didn't show up when I did a search) in the installation forum.
Steve
Hi Thomas,
These video's are really helpfull.
for advanced --> compiling MIB --> fix MIB common syntax errors ... (ho does the relation work between MIB ?)
-> working with DCI --> SNMP tables ... not working for me ..
and how to use NXSL to get extra SNMP values after receivnig a trap .. .. -->My post with de 'thing' it trey to do https://www.netxms.org/forum/general-support/get-ifalias/ (https://www.netxms.org/forum/general-support/get-ifalias/)
This would realy be helpfull..
Hey Thomas,
Great video work. I was working towards Zabbix or NetXMS but your video intro on Brothers WISP put me over the line for NetXMS. We ate those basic videos for breakfast.
Any update on when Advanced may come available, or if it already is?