Thanks Stephen, You will have to show me how to use the overall status info from tac.cgi. I just thought about it, since nagvis can monitor hostgroups, I will create a hostgroup for each site and place the icons on the main map. I think that should solve it. Silly of me - what didn't I think about this earlier Thanks Stephen <div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 3, 2008 1:01 PM, Valdinger, Stephen (DOV, MSX) <<a href="mailto:svalding@doverchem.com">svalding@doverchem.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;"> <div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"> <div> Why not use Nagvis, create one map with four site images and use the overall status informations from tac.cgi as your basis for if each site has a problem somewhere in it? I have that implemented in an Overall Network Health Page for my 2 locations. If a service or host at one of the sites is in warning, then my little image turns yellow to reflect a warning state at one of the sites. It's not too very intuitive, and may not work at all for your, but my 2 locations only produce about 100 checks. It's very small. Nagvis may not be quite as scalable for an installation as large as yours.<div class="Ih2E3d"> Stephen Valdinger Dover Chemical Corporation MIS Helpdesk Guru 330.365.3622 <a href="mailto:stephen.valdinger@doverchem.com" target="_blank">stephen.valdinger@doverchem.com</a> "If a man says something in the woods and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?" </div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(181, 196, 223) -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color; border-width: 1pt medium medium; padding: 3pt 0in 0in;"> From: Alex Dehaini [mailto:<a href="mailto:alexdehaini@gmail.com" target="_blank">alexdehaini@gmail.com</a>] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 7:58 AM<div class="Ih2E3d"> To: <a href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net" target="_blank">nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> </div> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] graphical mapping tool </div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"> Stephen, nagvis is good but it lacks a very important feature that is present in most NMS. It can't tell you if any host if down within a site. Take for instance, I have 4 sites Site 1 - router1, server1, switch, access point1 Site 2 - router2, workstation1, workstation2, server3, access point2 Site 3 - router3, workstation3, workstation4, accesspoint3 Site 4 - access point4, workstation5 Now, you can have a default map that link these 4 sites. With nagvis you have to monitor all the devices at each site and show them on the map. I don't want a map that will show all my devices on one cluttered map. I want a map that will add the four sites above and each site will be able to show (problem, on or off) on the main map if any device on any 4 sites has a problem. I sent several emails asking the nagvis developers if this is possible but I got no reply. If nagvis can do this, I will use it without hesitation. <div> On Jan 3, 2008 12:42 PM, Valdinger, Stephen (DOV, MSX) < <a href="mailto:svalding@doverchem.com" target="_blank">svalding@doverchem.com</a>> wrote: <div> <div> I recently implemented NagVis in our Nagios installation. Seems to work out great for us. Check them out and <a href="http://www.nagvis.org" target="_blank">www.nagvis.org</a> Stephen Valdinger Dover Chemical Corporation MIS Helpdesk Guru 330.365.3622 <a href="mailto:stephen.valdinger@doverchem.com" target="_blank">stephen.valdinger@doverchem.com</a> "If a man says something in the woods and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?" <div style="border-style: solid none none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-width: 1pt medium medium; padding: 3pt 0in 0in;"> From: Alex Dehaini [mailto:<a href="mailto:alexdehaini@gmail.com" target="_blank">alexdehaini@gmail.com</a>] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 7:34 AM To: <a href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net" target="_blank">nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> Subject: [Nagios-users] graphical mapping tool </div> <div> <div> Hi Guys, Nagios is a wonderful tool but it's status map is not the prettiest. Any tool out there that I can integrate with nagios to produce nice maps. I will love something that I can use to create multiple maps that are all connected to a general map? -- Alex Dehaini Developer Site - <a href="http://www.alexdehaini.com" target="_blank">www.alexdehaini.com</a> Email - <a href="mailto:alexdehaini@gmail.com" target="_blank">alexdehaini@gmail.com</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> -- Alex Dehaini Developer Site - <a href="http://www.alexdehaini.com" target="_blank">www.alexdehaini.com</a> Email - <a href="mailto:alexdehaini@gmail.com" target="_blank">alexdehaini@gmail.com</a> </div></div></div> </div> </blockquote></div> -- Alex Dehaini Developer Site - <a href="http://www.alexdehaini.com">www.alexdehaini.com</a> Email - <a href="mailto:alexdehaini@gmail.com">alexdehaini@gmail.com</a>