Nagios Looking Glass 1.1.0 beta 1 released

[Lars Stavholm]

Fair enough, looking forward to version 2 of NLG!
Cheers
/Lars

Andy Shellam wrote:
> Hi Lars,
> 
> I agree with you 100%.  If I, as a user (techie or not), looking at my own
> machines, I'd expect some sort of summary; I wouldn't care about anyone
> else's or even the network as a whole.  As you quite rightly said Lars, the
> 'overall health' needs to be aimed at the users "select machines".  NLG v1,
> however, has no concept of machine ownership, it simply shows the entire
> Nagios estate.
> 
> This isn't a fault, that's how it was designed.  It is, however, also where
> it falls down, and the need for a solution targeted to a different audience
> becomes apparent, hence the v2 project.  
> 
> I designed v1 originally for my own use, to present users who have signed up
> to my services as an ISP with an overview of my network and how well (or
> badly) it was performing.  Users didn't have machines or services of their
> own; they just wanted to be able to see if network problems were affecting
> the servers they may use.
> 
> Since I released it to the Nagios community last year, a wider audience have
> seen the potential for using NLG in ways it wasn't originally designed,
> which is fantastic because it means I get the chance to build on the success
> of the project, and hopefully design and build a solution that more and more
> people will find useful :-)
> 
> The "host-filter" hack was indeed a hack as many people were requesting the
> same thing, but with the current code architecture it wasn't possible to do
> a permanent fix, and it was indeed a hack put in simply to tide people over
> until v2 is ready.
> 
> Andy
> 
> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Looking Glass 1.1.0 beta 1 released
>> From: Lars Stavholm <stava at telcotec.se>
>> To: "Andy Shellam" <andy.shellam-lists at mailnetwork.co.uk>
>> CC: "Giles Coochey"
> <gcoochey at sapphire.gi>,"nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net"
> <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
>> Date: 19/02/2008 7:01
>>
>>
>> Andy Shellam wrote:
>>> Hi Giles,
>>>
>>> Thanks for your comments.  The 'Network Health' page is designed to
> reflect
>>> the status of the network as a whole which, I agree, can be confusing
> when
>>> host-specific filters are specified.  An example scenario of the
> reasoning
>>> behind this is:
>>>
>>> You're viewing the 'network health' page and select the "down hosts
> only"
>>> filter.  All the hosts in this filter will be down, thus rendering the
>>> network "100% down", which obviously looks bad.
>> Of course it does, and as an example of the situation at hand,
>> pretty useless.
>>
>> How about viewing this problem from the users point of view?
>> And I mean the non-techie user. Then it would be quite obvious
>> that Network Health should reflect the network health of the
>> users machines, otherwise you would have a bit of explaining
>> to do to a bunch of not so happy users, that would look at you
>> with those eyes saying "now there's a real techie, he hasn't
>> got a clue, let's get out of here".
>>
>> When using the "down hosts only filter", one might consider not
>> letting this reflect on the overall Network Health at all,
>> actually. IMHO the Network Health should show the summary of
>> health for the users select machines only, at all times,
>> filter or not.
>>
>> Other than that, NLG is a brilliant solution, badly needed
>> out there (here at least), and I've been looking forward to
>> try it out with nagios 3.x. Thanks for the effort Andy!
>>
>> Just my 2c worth
>>
>> Cheers
>> /Lars
>>
>>> NLG v2 is going to be designed to work better with users, permissions
> and
>>> groups and will be better suited to those who don't want a simple
> "network
>>> overview" and would like to restrict what different users and groups can
>>> see.
>>>
>>> In terms of licensing, clause 4c states that if the work, ie. NLG, is
>>> publicly displayed then all copyright notices must be kept intact,
> including
>>> the author's name, designated company, title of the work and URL. 
> Therefore
>>> if you're providing access to NLG through a publicly-available URL or
>>> website, the copyright notice must be left intact, otherwise if it is
> only
>>> available to a set number of users (e.g. through an internal URL or
>>> intranet) I'm happy for the copyright notice to be removed.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Andy
>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Looking Glass 1.1.0 beta 1 released
>>>> From: Giles Coochey <gcoochey at sapphire.gi>
>>>> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>>>> Date: 18/02/2008 15:59
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Andy,
>>>>
>>>> I thought I'd take a look at your project, as I have some interest in
>>> having some sort of dynamic portal which customers can query and I've
> seen
>>> your project surface time-and-time again on this list.
>>>> I've implemented the 'hack' to limit which hosts a particular user can
>>> see, but notice that they still see the "Overall Network Health" still
> shows
>>> the values for all hosts & services, rather than those in the currently
>>> selected filter.
>>>> It would be much better if the granularity for this tool followed the
>>> 'Nagios way' and used the contact group for all visibility.
> Unfortunately
>>> this is very important for our environment.
>>>> In terms of the license, what if I want to remove all references to
> Nagios
>>> Looking Glass, your name etc... from the portal interface? Is that going
> to
>>> be an issue? I'm not talking about removing any copyright or license
>>> information from the source files itself, just the customer facing side.
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Giles
>>>>
>>>> ________________________________________
>>>> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
>>> [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Andy
>>> Shellam
>>>> Sent: 18 February 2008 13:06
>>>> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>>>> Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios Looking Glass 1.1.0 beta 1 released
>>>>
>>>> The Nagios Looking Glass is pleased to announce the availability of NLG
>>> 1.1.0 beta 1.
>>>> This is the first release in the 1.1 series that makes NLG compatible
> with
>>> Nagios 3 (tested with Nagios 3.0rc2) while maintaining compatibility
> with
>>> Nagios 2.x.
>>>> The major changes in this version against 1.0.6 are:
>>>> * Added configuration option to change the location of cached files
>>> client-side (http://tracker.networkmail.eu/task/337)
>>>> * Locking for cache files (http://tracker.networkmail.eu/task/336)
>>>> * comments.dat and downtime.dat no longer available (change these to
>>> status.dat in server/sync-files/s3_config.inc.php)
>>> (http://tracker.networkmail.eu/task/333)
>>>> * Allow override of default timezone
>>> (http://tracker.networkmail.eu/task/214)
>>>> * Ability to disable client-side caching
>>> (http://tracker.networkmail.eu/task/126)
>>>> The new release
>>> can be downloaded from www.nagioslookingglass.co.uk/downloads.
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Andy Shellam
>>>> Lead Developer
>>>>
>>>>
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