Little proposal

[Cook, Garry]

Very nice.
How hard is it to forward to the statusmap WITHOUT using the depth
layers method?

Garry W. Cook, CCNA
Network Infrastructure Manager
MACTEC, Inc. - http://www.mactec.com/
303.308.6228 (Office) - 720.220.1862 (Mobile) 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefano Coletta [mailto:creator at mindcreations.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 8:22 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net; 
> nagios-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-devel] Little proposal
> 
> 
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I've realized a simple patch that has made my life with Nagios easier 
> when trying to locate a host in the statusmap.
> The attached screenshots will make clear what I've done:
> 
> shot1 : The red circle shows the new command (Host information page)
> shot2:  After clicking the icon you'll be forwarded on the statusmap 
> using "Depth Layers" method.
> shot3: Another point (Status Overview for example) from where you can 
> use this function.
> 
> This feature has been implemented by using the same code 
> present in the 
> Network Outages CGI...
> I thought it was good to have it for every host and not only 
> for outages.
> 
> This patch is more useful when you have many hosts (currently 
> 600). I've read that on v2.0 there is a search function to 
> locate hosts but I 
> think this is different.
> Here we have many people using Nagios in the same environment 
> and thus 
> locating a host in a network is an important task: it must be 
> easy and fast.
> 
> I'll wait for comments before posting the patch to make it 
> better than 
> now reflecting the majority needs and not only my owns.
> 
> Bye all
> 
> --
> Stefano Coletta
> http://www.mindcreations.com
> 


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