Question on Nagios Service Detail Layout

[Andreas Ericsson]

Todd McNeill wrote:
> Hi-
> 
> I've been using Nagios since the Netsaint days, so I've got a pretty good
> understanding of how it works, however, I would like to get some
> recommendations on how to organize and present data from the CGIs,
> especially the Service Detail screen.
> 
> I'm doing quite a bit of DBA work on DB2, and I've written a bunch of active
> and passive service checks to keep track of the health of the databases.
> However, I'm now running into an issue of the Service Detail screen looking
> pretty messy.  Hierarchically speaking, I have multiple hosts, each with
> multiple database instances.  Each of these instances can have multiple
> databases.  Each of these databases has multiple (5 - 7) service checks
> running against it.  Each instance also has a service check running against
> it.  I've set up a service dependency for each of the database checks
> against the instance check.  My development host now has 25 instances with
> over 30 databases, so for that one host entry, I have about 180 service
> checks.
> 
> I've named the service checks by database name, so at least they are sorted
> properly, but I'd love to hear any thoughts about how to better organize
> this visually.  What I'd love to see is a way to group beyond the
> host/service hierarchy, and have additional levels that would be presented
> on the service detail screen, such that the instance service checks would be
> indented (as they are now) from the host level, and there would be an
> additional indent for the service checks of the databases that belonged to
> that instance.
> 
> Example:
> 
> Dev Host 1
> --Dev Instance #1
> ----Dev DB1 Check #1
> ----Dev DB1 Check #2
> --Dev Instance #2
> ----Dev DB2 Check #1
> ----Dev DB2 Check #2
> Dev Host 2
> --Dev Instance #3
> ----Dev DB3 Check #1
> ----Dev DB3 Check #2
> ...
> 
> I'm still using Nagios 1.x, so if this is new functionality of 2.0, if
> someone could point me into the right direction on the documentation, that
> would be helpful.  If this has been answered previously, please forgive me.
> If none of this makes sense, I completely understand :)
> 

Nagios 2 has service groups. It does roughly what you want.


> TIA,
> Todd
> 
> 
> 
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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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