We had a cool meeting last week with one of our users, and he gave us some great suggestions for tweaks and improvements. One of his ideas was adding the ability to “schedule immediate checks” in bulk, so that once problems are fixed, admins can quickly cross hosts and services off the list of problems. As our user said, “I’m not so much interested in what is working as I am what’s not working.” Since the logic and filtering was already in place with the Mass Acknowledgment Component, I decided to simply add “schedule immediate check” to the list of options with this component. Thanks user TL for the suggestion! As developers, we love feedback, and usually our best ideas come from users, so keep the ideas coming! : )
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We’ve had a few users request the use of the “action_ur”l and” notes_url” config options to be accessible from the XI details screen. Nothing terribly fancy with this component, just another option for those users who need it. As Nagios developers, we love feedback, and we love to know what you guys need from our software, so keep the suggestions coming!
There has been large demand for MSSQL monitoring wizards and we just kicked out some MSSQL wizards and would love some feedback on how they are working.
With a project that started last December by translating comments from German, I’m relieved to see this project reach a stage where I feel comfortable showing the public. Nagios CCM (Core Config Manager) is a forked revision of the project NagiosQL 3.0 by Martin Willisegger. The code underneath dramatically overhauls the front-end logic, strives to improve X-browser compatibility, and ultimately paves the way for easier maintenance and improvements down the road. The database structure and underlying classes remain the same as the NagiosQL project, but the front-end has been entirely rebuilt, and the client side interactions are rewritten in JQuery in hopes to make community developments easier. Currently the Nagios CCM Beta only works on an XI install, but we’re hoping to release a community version that will work on Core installs later this year. New features in the Nagios CCM include:
- The ability to test host and service checks directly from the web interface
- Plugin documentation can be viewed from the web interface
- Search filters built into every page
- Improved pagination
- Group relationships can be see from both group->object and object->group directions.
- Improved user feedback from the database and it’s relationships
Although the Nagios CCM is far from finished, we wanted to give users a chance to check things out and get a feel for where this project will be headed.
If you’re a Nagios XI user, and you want to test out the CCM on your test environment, you can install the latest revision of the CCM with the following instructions.
Install Instructions: cd /tmp wget http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/exchange/nagiosccm/CCM.tar.gz tar zxf CCM.tar.gz ./install-CCM.sh
Access the new CCM Beta from the Nagios XI->Configure->Nagios CCM BETA (link).
Ok, so admittedly this is not a “new” component, since it was released back in February.
However after an interesting discussion with our team this week, we realized again how large the Nagios
community is, and keeping up with all of the latest new features and
Customized RSS Feed In Nagios XI
developments internally can sometimes be a challenge. So I thought I’d take a moment to point out a tool that can be used to keep your Nagios XI installation running with all of the latest features, plugins, and capabilities. The Custom RSS Feed dashlet allows you to define up to 5 RSS feeds and compile them into a scrolling list on your dashboard. Why would this be useful for an admin? Here’s a thought:
Nagios Library – Latest Customer Downloads Feed
Nagios Libary – Latest Documentation Feed
Nagios Exchange – New Project Listings Feed
Nagios Exchange – Updated Projects Feed
Nagios Labs – This website’s feed : )
Download the Nagios XI - Custom RSS Dashlet from Nagios Exchange.
We’ve had some requests in past months about developer documentation for writing custom Configuration Wizards for Nagios XI. Many admins have a large amount of devices of a specific type that they regularly need to add to their monitoring environment. So for those needing to write their own wizard, and don’t mind getting their hands dirty with PHP development, this document and example code illustrate how to write a monitoring wizard while maintaining the integrity of the Nagios XI framework. The example wizard utilizes a weather alerts check plugin written by Tony Yarusso. You can find the document on the Nagios Library.
In the past months we’ve had several requests for better control and time specifications for Nagios performance graphs, and me being a big fan of fancy visualizations, I’ve been staring at the old PNP graphs for a while and wondering if there’s a way we can create graphs that look like they’re actually from this decade. After reviewing several different visualization libraries, we decided to take a stab at developing some new tools with some graphing libraries from HighCharts. Although some of the fine details are still being polished, our first prototype has us pretty excited about where this project is headed.
JQuery Performance Graphs in XI
Our first prototype is a zoomable performance graph, that allows you to specify start/stop times, and then dynamically zoom the graph all the way down to a 5mn interval for closer examination. Although these graphs are client-side, they can all be exported into either png, pdf, jpg, or SVG images to use in external reporting or presentations. Let us know what you think!
