nagvis ideas?

[stan]

I am in the semi-final stages of setting up a nagios instance that monitors
aprox. 100 devices for a medium size manufacturing facility. We are going
to implement nagvis. 

I am looking for some ideas as to how to best utilize this tool. We
basically have "clusters" of computers. These clusters are distributed fairly
widely from a geographic point of view. I have a map of the facility that I
can use.

It seems to me, that there are 2 basic ways to "view" our conglomeration of
systems. One is geographic, and the 2nd is from a network topology point
of view. Frankly I think a nagvis presentation of both would be useful. The
network topology version is fairly straightforward (I think, but I would
like to here others point of view on this). The geographic version however,
frankly I am struggling with. If I show the systems on the large area map,
they are fairly spread out. I am thinking of doing that, and making dynamic
links for each cluster. These links would be color coded based upon the
status of all of the computers in that cluster, and would provide a link to
a more detailed view.

I'd love to hear what other peoples thoughts on this are.

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