Re: [Nagios-users] What would you want in a replacement web interface?
2009/11/24 shadih rahman shadhi...@gmail.com: This is not an issue. nagios search bar does regular expression search. do ffs-* in your box and it will result in all the hosts. Nagios is a monitoring tool. I think nagios users and administrators are some what involved with technology. Knowing how to do regular expression search is not an extreme requirement. I'm pretty sure it's not a regular expression, it's just a simple wild-card. For example, it won't understand ffs-[0-9] -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net 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
Re: [Nagios-users] What would you want in a replacement web interface?
I'd like (and i think this is the answer for question #3): * mobile webpages; * customizable ajax/web2.0 interface; Answers: #1) the tactical overview is fine; #2) would like to see what check commands nagios is issuing (for the need of troubleshooting, issuing the same command nagios triggers is a pain) - an easier way too see configured thresholds and the full command line and output. On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Taylor Dondich tdond...@lilacnetworks.comwrote: Hi there. I've been working on a replacement web interface for Nagios, and it's coming along great! However, I wanted to take the time to ask the community some questions to get your feedback and roll it into the interface. So I have 3 questions to ask you all. If you could answer with as much detail as possible, it would be fantastic. #1) What is the most important thing you want to see in a Tactical Overview replacement? What are the most essential components? #2) When looking at a Host or a Service, what are the details you want/need to see? What can you not live without? #3) What is your biggest gripe regarding the existing Nagios web user interface? -- Taylor Dondich (tdond...@gmail.com) CEO at Lilac Networks (http://www.lilacnetworks.com) Provider of quality support for open source monitoring solutions View our open source Nagios Configuration Tool at http://www.lilacplatform.com -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net 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 -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net 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
Re: [Nagios-users] What would you want in a replacement web interface?
No, knowing how to do "regular _expression_" (or wildcard) searches is not an extreme requirement. In fact, it makes perfect sense, and I am intimately familiar with both. That said, last time I tried that it didn't work - I'm not so stupid as to not think to try a simple wildcard :-). On the other hand, I'm running 3.0.6, as that is what is distributed with the stable version of OpenBSD. Perhaps this is something that was fixed in 3.1 or 3.2? I seem to recall reading something about a new web interface. So my point stands that this is MY biggest gripe with the web interface. If it's already been fixed, awesome! :-)On Nov 24, 2009, at 11:48 AM, shadih rahman wrote:This is not an issue. nagios search bar does regular _expression_ search. do ffs-* in your box and it will result in all the hosts. Nagios is a monitoring tool. I think nagios users and administrators are some what involved with technology. Knowing how to do "regular _expression_" search is not an extreme requirement. On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Israel Brewster isr...@frontierflying.com wrote: 2009/11/16 Taylor Dondich tdond...@lilacnetworks.com: #3) What is your biggest gripe regarding the existing Nagios web user interface?The lack of a real search. The select box is practically useless. For example, I have a bunch of hosts named ffs-whatever, but if I type in ffs- to the search box, I only get one result. I would really like a real (albeit simple) search so if I type ffs, I get ALL hosts containing ffs. --- Israel Brewster Computer Support Technician II Frontier Flying Service Inc. 5245 Airport Industrial Rd Fairbanks, AK 99709 (907) 450-7250 x293 ----- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net 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-- Cordially,Shadhin Rahman ---Israel BrewsterComputer SupportTechnician IIFrontier Flying Service Inc.5245 Airport Industrial RdFairbanks, AK 99709(907) 450-7250 x293---BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Brewster;Israel;;; FN:Israel Brewster ORG:Frontier Flying Service;MIS TITLE:PC Support Tech II EMAIL;type=INTERNET;type=WORK;type=pref:isr...@frontierflying.com TEL;type=WORK;type=pref:907-450-7293 item1.ADR;type=WORK;type=pref:;;5245 Airport Industrial Wy;Fairbanks;AK;99701; item1.X-ABADR:us CATEGORIES:General X-ABUID:36305438-95EA-4410-91AB-45D16CABCDDC\:ABPerson END:VCARD -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net 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
Re: [Nagios-users] What would you want in a replacement web interface?
Israel Brewster wrote: No, knowing how to do regular expression (or wildcard) searches is not an extreme requirement. In fact, it makes perfect sense, and I am intimately familiar with both. That said, last time I tried that it didn't work - I'm not so stupid as to not think to try a simple wildcard :-). On the other hand, I'm running 3.0.6, as that is what is distributed with the stable version of OpenBSD. Perhaps this is something that was fixed in 3.1 or 3.2? I seem to recall reading something about a new web interface. So my point stands that this is MY biggest gripe with the web interface. If it's already been fixed, awesome! :-) On Nov 24, 2009, at 11:48 AM, shadih rahman wrote: This is not an issue. nagios search bar does regular expression search. do ffs-* in your box and it will result in all the hosts. Nagios is a monitoring tool. I think nagios users and administrators are some what involved with technology. Knowing how to do regular expression search is not an extreme requirement. On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Israel Brewster isr...@frontierflying.com mailto:isr...@frontierflying.com wrote: 2009/11/16 Taylor Dondich tdond...@lilacnetworks.com mailto:tdond...@lilacnetworks.com: #3) What is your biggest gripe regarding the existing Nagios web user interface? The lack of a real search. The select box is practically useless. For example, I have a bunch of hosts named ffs-whatever, but if I type in ffs- to the search box, I only get one result. I would really like a real (albeit simple) search so if I type ffs, I get ALL hosts containing ffs. While we're complaining about the search bar: How about having the search pull up something other than hosts. It drives me nuts that I can't get hits on a hostgroup or servicegroup name, for example. -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net 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
Re: [Nagios-users] What would you want in a replacement web interface?
2009/11/16 Taylor Dondich tdond...@lilacnetworks.com: #3) What is your biggest gripe regarding the existing Nagios web user interface? The lack of a real search. The select box is practically useless. For example, I have a bunch of hosts named ffs-whatever, but if I type in ffs- to the search box, I only get one result. I would really like a real (albeit simple) search so if I type ffs, I get ALL hosts containing ffs. --- Israel Brewster Computer Support Technician II Frontier Flying Service Inc. 5245 Airport Industrial Rd Fairbanks, AK 99709 (907) 450-7250 x293 --- BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Brewster;Israel;;; FN:Israel Brewster ORG:Frontier Flying Service;MIS TITLE:PC Support Tech II EMAIL;type=INTERNET;type=WORK;type=pref:isr...@frontierflying.com TEL;type=WORK;type=pref:907-450-7293 item1.ADR;type=WORK;type=pref:;;5245 Airport Industrial Wy;Fairbanks;AK;99701; item1.X-ABADR:us CATEGORIES:General X-ABUID:36305438-95EA-4410-91AB-45D16CABCDDC\:ABPerson END:VCARD -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net 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
Re: [Nagios-users] What would you want in a replacement web interface?
This is not an issue. nagios search bar does regular expression search. do ffs-* in your box and it will result in all the hosts. Nagios is a monitoring tool. I think nagios users and administrators are some what involved with technology. Knowing how to do regular expression search is not an extreme requirement. On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Israel Brewster isr...@frontierflying.comwrote: 2009/11/16 Taylor Dondich tdond...@lilacnetworks.com: #3) What is your biggest gripe regarding the existing Nagios web user interface? The lack of a real search. The select box is practically useless. For example, I have a bunch of hosts named ffs-whatever, but if I type in ffs- to the search box, I only get one result. I would really like a real (albeit simple) search so if I type ffs, I get ALL hosts containing ffs. --- Israel Brewster Computer Support Technician II Frontier Flying Service Inc. 5245 Airport Industrial Rd Fairbanks, AK 99709 (907) 450-7250 x293 --- -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net 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 -- Cordially, Shadhin Rahman -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net 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
Re: [Nagios-users] What would you want in a replacement web interface?
2009/11/16 Taylor Dondich tdond...@lilacnetworks.com: #1) What is the most important thing you want to see in a Tactical Overview replacement? What are the most essential components? I think most if not all of it is useful except ... for quite a few of my services I have deliberately disabled flap detection, and for passive checks I have disabled active checks. I would like not to see anything about these in the tactical overview. In fact, it would be useful to have a customisable tactical overview so I can pick/choose which elements I want to see in it. #2) When looking at a Host or a Service, what are the details you want/need to see? What can you not live without? To be honest, I don't think I can live without any of it. Except I usually modify the URL of the status cgis to include noheader as I'm rarely interested in what's in the header. #3) What is your biggest gripe regarding the existing Nagios web user interface? In no particular order ... I would like to be able to view host and service status on the same screen, in the same table. I would like optionally to view problems in hard state only. I would like the option to output any report to a .pdf I would like the display to change only subtly when I'm restarting the nagios daemon. Cheers, Jim -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net 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
Re: [Nagios-users] What would you want in a replacement web interface?
Taylor Dondich wrote: #3) What is your biggest gripe regarding the existing Nagios web user interface I have a colleague that would like to look at the Nagios status screen with his PDA. A quick google search did not give any result, might be me. Anyway, something with smalls screens and/or CSS? -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net 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
Re: [Nagios-users] What would you want in a replacement web interface?
-Original Message- From: Taylor Dondich [mailto:tdond...@lilacnetworks.com] Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 8:23 AM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] What would you want in a replacement web interface? Hi there. I've been working on a replacement web interface for Nagios, and it's coming along great! However, I wanted to take the time to ask the community some questions to get your feedback and roll it into the interface. So I have 3 questions to ask you all. If you could answer with as much detail as possible, it would be fantastic. #1) What is the most important thing you want to see in a Tactical Overview replacement? What are the most essential components? My main screen is the service problems, not the tactical overview. Maybe the tactical overview could (optionally) contain a list of all service problems? #2) When looking at a Host or a Service, what are the details you want/need to see? What can you not live without? For those people who use the FQDN as host name, I would love to see a way to sort hosts by domain. The sort should not be case sensitive. OK, that's not directly an answer to your question, but for me it's a little thing that would help enormously. When monitoring hosts in several different domains, the host list is sorted by host name; domains aren't grouped together. Also, FQDNs aren't case sensitive, but Nagios is. That's primarily an issue when monitoring Windows servers. #3) What is your biggest gripe regarding the existing Nagios web user interface? The Nagios navigation is too closely tied to the content. What I'd love to see is Nagios being a set of individual snippets that you can embed in your own Web site (plus a framework that ties them all together for those people who want to use it the current way). In my case, for instance, I'd love to be able to embed Nagios into Joomla pages. If the user clicks on a link within one of the Nagios pages (say, clicks on a service to see service details), it should be possible to forward such a click to the page that Nagios is embedded into and let the framework handle navigation. A session-based authentication scheme would be nice. The ultimate goal would be single-sign-on support; when logged into one of the common frameworks (in my case, again, Joomla), there should be a way for Nagios to retrieve the user name and password from the parent session without exposing the password. -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net 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
[Nagios-users] What would you want in a replacement web interface?
Hi there. I've been working on a replacement web interface for Nagios, and it's coming along great! However, I wanted to take the time to ask the community some questions to get your feedback and roll it into the interface. So I have 3 questions to ask you all. If you could answer with as much detail as possible, it would be fantastic. #1) What is the most important thing you want to see in a Tactical Overview replacement? What are the most essential components? #2) When looking at a Host or a Service, what are the details you want/need to see? What can you not live without? #3) What is your biggest gripe regarding the existing Nagios web user interface? -- Taylor Dondich (tdond...@gmail.com) CEO at Lilac Networks (http://www.lilacnetworks.com) Provider of quality support for open source monitoring solutions View our open source Nagios Configuration Tool at http://www.lilacplatform.com -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net 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
