Can someone have a look please?

[Schmitz, Carsten]

Hi Stefan,

Its probably just the weird way my brain is wired ;) but if I imagine for a second knowing nothing about Nagios (okay, I don't know much anyway ;) then I'd have my difficulties with the pic and would start digging for a textual representation.

Some ideas maybe:

- the arrows could have a text in the middle of them, pointing out what actually happens. And include file names. Like this:
  
  PLUGIN    --- is defined in --->   COMMAND DEFINITION   --- is used to check --->   SERVICE
                                     (checkcommands.cfg)

- maybe it could also be beneficial to make graphically clear that hostgroups are containers for hosts? Like having a few boxes for hosts pointing to a common hostgroup.

Host1  Host2   Host3  [...]
  |      |      |       |
---------------------------
| Hostgroup 1             |
---------------------------

Or even use simplified real life names, i.e. like this:

Oracle  Sybase  Postgresql  [...]
  |      |      |             |
---------------------------------
| Hostgroup DATABASE BOXES      |
---------------------------------

Exactly the same goes for contacts / contactgroups I guess.

- In any case, a textual explaination should be nearby, on the same page or such.

Just my $0.02 (oder, meine zwei Eurocent :)

Cheers,
Carsten




-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Stephan
Janosch
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 11:28 AM
To: Nagios Users List
Subject: [Nagios-users] Can someone have a look please?


Hi nagios users!

I'm trying to do a overview of nagios' core objects. The objects needed
for nagios to run. I also want to show the relations between these
"core" objects. So I did a nice(?) image.

http://momocat.de/nagios/img4.jpg

Did i miss something?

Thanks for your attention. I
would also contribute this image to the manual, if you find it's useful.
Especcially nagios starters have their difficulties to see the
connections between the objects.

If you want to give some critics to the image, feel free.

regards, Stephan

PS: As the list does not like images, I resent this mail with an URL 
link inside. This is the resent mail.



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