Extended information not working as expected?

Kyriacos Sakkas sakkas at unimedcy.com
Mon Nov 22 08:59:56 CET 2004


Jan Scholten wrote:
> Hi!
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've added some extended information to my Nagios install for services 
>> and hosts but neither seem to be working correctly.  I saw a 
>> suggestion about adding a URL for graph info for a service so I 
>> thought I would give it a try but I can't even get hosts to show an 
>> icon of the selected logo.  All the logos are in the logos directory 
>> as they should be.  I don't understand why nothing is showing.    Any 
>> suggestions where to look?
>>
>> Norm
> 
> 
> Search the mailinglist archive, there have been many mails about extinfo 
> and images:
> My solutioon how to get images working. There is (or somevbody said) a 
> bug in the Debian package, so that you may need to build it from source!
> 
Can't vouch for debian and flatfiles but debian(testing) and DB work fine.

K.S.

> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> I'm using a selfcompiled Debian too and it works here:
> 
> cgi.cfg:
> #@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ eXtended Data File @@@@@@@@@@@@
> 
> #Only first file is parsed, so we put everything in one file!
> xedtemplate_config_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/extinfo.cfg
> 
> #xedtemplate_config_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/serviceextinfo.cfg
> #xedtemplate_config_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/hostextinfo.cfg
> #@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
> 
> 
> in extinfo.cfg:
> 
> 
> define serviceextinfo{
>         host_name       newshell,omega,internet
>         service_description SSH
>         icon_image      SSH.png
> }
> 
> #extended Host Info
> #
> define hostextinfo{
>         host_name   NagiosPC,webhost1,webhost2
>         icon_image  debian.png
>         icon_image_alt Debian Server
>         statusmap_image debian.gd2
> }
> 
> ls -al /usr/local/nagios/share/images/ | grep logos
> drwxrwxr-x   2 nagios nagios    4096 2004-10-28 13:32 logos
> 
> ls -al /usr/local/nagios/share/images/logos
> [cut]
> -rw-r--r--  1 nagios nagios   2389 2001-09-24 06:36 debian.gd2
> -rw-r--r--  1 nagios nagios   1437 2001-09-24 06:36 debian.gif
> -rw-r--r--  1 nagios nagios   1580 2001-09-24 06:36 debian.jpg
> -rw-r--r--  1 nagios nagios   1575 2001-09-24 06:36 debian.png
> [cut]
> -rw-r--r--  1 nagios nagios   1365 2004-10-19 14:56 SSH.gif
> -rw-r--r--  1 nagios nagios    945 2004-10-19 14:56 SSH.jpg
> -rw-r--r--  1 nagios nagios   1751 2004-10-19 14:56 SSH.png
> 
> That works for me!
> 
> Remember: ONLY the first xedtemplate_config_file entry is taken!
> e.g.:
> 
> xedtemplate_config_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/serviceextinfo.cfg
> xedtemplate_config_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/hostextinfo.cfg
> 
> hostsextinfo.cfg is ignored
> 
> xedtemplate_config_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/hostextinfo.cfg
> xedtemplate_config_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/serviceextinfo.cfg
> 
> serviceextinfo.cfg is ignored!
> 
> A Background image will only be shown if you select User supplied 
> coordinates, Hostgroup_name and * are not working in extinfo!
> 
> 
> Cheers
> Jan
> 
> 
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