Useful status map

[Tedman Eng]

One strategy I used was to create groupings using the parents directive.
While this may be redundant from hostgroups directives, it's the only one
honored in statusmap.
 
For example for a bunch of web servers, create a "Web Server" host with
check_dummy and no hostgroup and no notifications.  Make it the parent of
all your web server branches.  Same can be done with other host groupings.
This has the advantage that the farther out from center, the more space each
host gets, so they arent overlapping.
 
I find that changing the default view to bubble view is the best way to
display many hosts.
 
Also, we have a noc with a large projector screen for everyone and high
resolution, so I edited the cgi and recompiled to outout a larger image
size. (There's config options for image size right at the top of the .c
file)  While you're in there, you can also adjust the amount of padding
space required to display the hostname.  I forget, but I think I also
adjusted the bubble size.

-----Original Message-----
From: HENSHAW Brad [mailto:Brad.Henshaw at qbuild.qld.gov.au]
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 12:15 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] Useful status map



Does anyone have a strategy or scripts to make the statusmap usable for a
largeish (200+) number of hosts? As I don't have a lot of time I'm loathe to
hack statusmap.cgi but might do so if I have to.

There is something to be said for having a pretty map which fits on screen
to show the less technically inclined in an attempt to justify hours ssh'd
into my nagios box!

Regards, 
Brad 

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