Simplified Status View

[Chris Losch]

Funny, I had thought of the group idea, after I sent the original mail,
however I wasn't sure how to go about it.

I have a feeling it won't suit our exact requirements. 

We would like the simplest of views - something like

Internal e-mail - Green (Up) 
Internet        - Green (Up)
Intranet        - Red (Down) - <Fault/Maintainance reason - possibly ETA for
service recovery>
Network         - Amber (Some issues)
RAS 
etc. etc. etc.

Where as Nagios would be the engine to monitor the whole e-mail system -
there are several servers - but we wouldnt want end users seeing all that
information - History suggests they are easily confused and would defeat the
object of this exercise.

I would be interested in hearing from anyone who has implemented the
Postnuke solution, or designed a similar solution to what we are after,
other than that, it will be time to get our Dev section to look at writing
something, when they do, I will be sure to make it available.

As for Postnuke I'll have a dig around in the list archives now I know what
to look for.

Thanks for your time and help,
Chris


-----Original Message-----
From: Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] [mailto:jcarro10 at sprintspectrum.com]
Sent: 27 February 2003 17:15
To: 'Chris Losch'; 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Simplified Status View


One simple way would be to create another contact group and add those users
to the group.  This assumes of course that you have all the other cgi.cfg
params set correctly, eg:

use_authentication=1
authorized_for_system_information=*
authorized_for_configuration_information=*
authorized_for_system_commands=nagiosadmin
authorized_for_all_services=nagiosadmin,guest
authorized_for_all_hosts=nagiosadmin,guest
authorized_for_all_service_commands=nagiosadmin
authorized_for_all_host_commands=nagiosadmin

Once you have the new contact group set up (with the desired end users in
that group), you would add them to the contact_groups directive for each of
the desired services.

If you don't like this approach, there was someone on the list a while back
who mentioned using postnuke to get some sort of frontend set up for Nagios
to do something like you describe.  If you're interested, I'll dig it out
and forward it to you.

jc


-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Losch [mailto:Chris.Losch at newham.gov.uk]
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 5:50 AM
To: 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
Subject: [Nagios-users] Simplified Status View


Hey all, 
Has anybody created a CGI/method which gives a 'dummed down' view of
selected service/host status. 
The idea being to provide a Service Status Information page for end users to
look at, with a list of core services e-mail, intranet, databases and colour
coding for the status (red amber green) - similar to Service Status pages
found on most ISP pages.
If not I will have to create one, but I was thinking (OK... hoping) that
there is no point in re-inventing the wheel! 
Thanks 
Chris 


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