See Below ________________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 October 2007 22:41 To: [email protected] Subject: [Nagios-users] Customizing statusmap.cgi
I am interested in customizing statusmap.cgi to use hostgroups instead of single hosts. We are already using a patch that displays the hosts on a google map and management wants a map of the hostgroups at location, shown on the map, for the NOC to watch. I won't venture off into my lack of support for this idea but suffice it to say I have been tasked with accomplishing that. The easiest method, so it seems to me at the moment, is to use the googlemap patch combined with patching to use hostgroups instead of hosts. I am not much a c hacker so I am at a disadvantage as to how to get this working. Any and all help would be appreciated. Mark, I recently spent a lot of time trying to dissuade management about maps and the futility of them, I've implemented one here for our NOC (under duress). The Tactical Overview / Current Problems pages are far more interesting and useful for NOC engineers. I'm sure our marketing department could have put some nice pretty pictures in the NOC and it would have had the same effect (something for potential customers to gasp in awe at). I notice that there has been very little work with regard to the statusmap.cgi in Nagios (few changes there since version 1) and after searching away on google for quite a while for customisations I'm resorting to argue the case that the current map we have is as good as it is going to get, and I'd rather spend my time improving the services and dependencies so that the NOC get more intelligent alerting. The return on investment doing that is far higher than any pretty pictures. That said, if anyone does invest time on the statusmap code, implement multiple maps, implement a slide show feature, implement the hostgroups feature you ask for, etc... and submit the code to the main Nagios codebase, then I would probably upgrade in a flash. Best Regards, Giles PS - Quoting from the OpenNMS FAQ (Does OpenNMS have a map?) and I think the same philosophy can be found within the minds of those who develop Nagios: The short answer is that we don't have one. If you want the explanation, read on. OpenNMS was developed by seasoned network management consultants. One of the more popular commercial NMS programs is Hewlett-Packard's Network Node Manager, which generates a network map that can be customized. Most of the OpenNMS creators had spend literally months of their lives customizing maps like those provided by NNM. The problem is that, while pretty, automated maps have limited usefulness. It can be argued that even customized maps rarely return the investment made in creating them. Even with NNM, most experienced network managers rely more on the event list than the map. So, rather than spending a huge amount of development effort on a map, OpenNMS chose a different route. On the main WebUI page there is a "real time console" (RTC) that reflects the status of categories of devices. Out of the box these categories reflect groups of devices like database servers, web servers, etc. However, anything in the database can be used to create a custom category list, and grouping devices by location, building, vendor, IP range, etc., is very common. The categories list follows a basic tenet of OpenNMS: once configured it should be simple to use and as automated as possible. As new devices are added, the categories automatically update. There is no need for manual customization, such as would be required with a useful map. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
