Installing NMIS (Network Management Information System)

Recently I was a presenter at the annual Tech Feast conference held at Heartland Community College in Normal, IL.  The conference is a gathering of technology educators in the K-12 schools of Illinois.  In my presentations on network troubleshooting I mentioned the open source tool NMIS and had several requests for more information on the installation and use of the tool.  This post will serve as an installation guide from a bare bones Ubuntu 10.04 LTS server install.  A subsequent post will cover configuration of NMIS.