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The gurus may correct these pages. Probably all of the information here is already written down but somehow I was not happy with it. I am more the Linux/Perl/Install-and-if-it-does-not-run-in-five-minutes-throw-it-away-type-of User, and the complexity of Tomcat, JRE, is just too much for me. I have other things to do, as well, than to spend time with one application.

• Every Node in the System should be in the "Default" 'Group' of Nodes:
  • In the poller-configuration.xml, look for <package name="default">
  • Mine holds currently only ICMP: <service name="ICMP" ..

• If you now, in the Web Interface, discover the Node, ICMP should be automatically discovered and "pinged". You will not yet receive any report on response time.

• To add that, you need to ((restart OpenNMS))

• To add additonal Services, you either
  • Add them to your default ((poller package))
  • Create a specific package for that type of Node

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