Hi, you may want to have a look a nagvis (<a href="http://www.nagvis.org/doku.php" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.nagvis.org/doku.php</a>) which is interresting to provide different customisable views and has a simple built in editor. Of course if you have more than 50 hosts it starts to be difficult to set them up by hand. Therefor I'd suggest you also look at graphviz ( <a href="http://www.graphviz.org/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.graphviz.org/</a>) to automagically calculate proper coordinates for your hosts based on the parent relationship between them ... Seb. <div>On 1/24/07, naim abu darwish <<a href="mailto:naim.abu.darwish@gmail.com">naim.abu.darwish@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Well, i have similar problem, I have 530 hosts, so having all those on one map would be meaningless. I just need the routers and the wireless machines on there. If i chose what to exclude from the status map, it will still keep links pointing to hidden devices and thus the map will still be cluttered. I found a patch on the Pkg-nagios-devel debian mailing list, a post dating back to Tue, 28 Jun 2005. so i guess that patch was made to work with maybe nagios-1.x ?? anyway, link to original post :: <a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-nagios-devel/2005-June/000804.html">http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-nagios-devel/2005-June/000804.html </a> this is supposed to make the map only show certain selective hostgroups on the statusmap. i tried the patch on statusmap.c , I am using nagios 2.5. the patch failed. Im not very good at reading C code, could someone help out here ? maybe fix the patch for the current nagios version, also seems a good idea to include in future nagios versions Help appreciated ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash <a href="http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV"> http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV</a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net"> Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</a> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </blockquote></div>