Questions about Status Map

[Frost, Mark {PBG}]

Thanks, Jim.

I tried out Nexsm last night and found that it gave me a huge, unordered
picture of all my hosts.  It was as close to random as I can imagine.  I
realize I can create custom views if I wanted to dedicate the time to
that.

Perhaps I don't fully understand the parent relationship stuff.  That's
most for routers and switches which we don't monitor (nor really care
about) -- that's for other teams that are completely disassociated with
ours.  My understanding is that you setup parent relationships between
host entitities (including switches and routers) and for what we
monitor, there are none.

I'll have a look at nagiosmap.

Thanks

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Jim
Avery
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 12:50 PM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Questions about Status Map

On 25/04/07, Frost, Mark {PBG} <mark.frost1 at pepsi.com> wrote:

> I suspect I could make more use of the user-defined coordinates, but
> with 350 hosts and 1800 services, that doesn't seem very practical.

You could use nagiosmap which will give you the ability to drag the
hosts around the screen to set the coordinates.  Have a look on
http://nagiosexchange.org .  Without this, 350 hosts is stretching the
abilities of the standard status map somewhat, imo.  Admittedly I've
never tried nagiosmap myself because ...

An alternative status map visualisation tool which is much better
suited to hundreds of hosts is nexsm.
http://nexsm.gridshield.net/Overview.html  It can be a little tricky
to set up so be prepared to look through the forum discussion on
sourceforge and the email archive here to see what some of the common
issues are.

Either way, you really will benefit from setting the parent
relationships, not only for visualisation but for helping Nagios to
send you only appropriate alerts too.

hth,

Jim

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