As my users are becoming more and more comfortable with XI I've been getting more requests for certain features so here's a snapshot of the most requested.
1. The ability to upload configuration files through the CCM: My administrative users who need to make bulk adds/changes generate a large Nagios config file but there's currently no way for them to directly deliver that to the system so they can import it.
2. "More dashboard": I feel like the dashboards have something of an identity crisis, like an entire box of Lego where there are no top bumps on any of the pieces to clip them together. Usually all my users ever want from the dashboard is to see specific hosts or specific host groups or sub-sets of hostgroups or specific services and occasionally combine those with pretty graphs/widgets. But there's no component to actually build a custom host/service collection, which to date encompasses 100% of all requests I have ever received for dashboards.
2b. We also have a similar problem when it comes to reporting, what host/service group availability looks like according to the business and what it should look like according to the people who actually maintain the infrastructure intersects in a very Venn diagram fashion. For instance, the business might want "E-Mail availability", which could be components from Linux SMTP relays, Exchange edge transports and Exchange processing hubs. The infrastructure teams would see them disparately as "windows-servers", "linux-servers", "mail-relays", "exchange-servers", "mail-datastore-collectionx", "san-storage".
Now some of the checks relating to these hosts would be relevant but "Windows CPU usage 100%" as part of windows-server monitoring does not necessarily constitute an outage (although it's definitely a serious issue) where as C: drive being 100% would probably cause it to die, which is also a part of the windows-server host group set. The ability for those non-technical users generating reports to cherry-pick what they need would fill my days with endless joy.
3. Better authentication integration between components: This one is kind of self explanatory, having an AD integrated XI login and then having a manual login for the CCM component means a lot of password resets. Also right now in order to use the NagVis component you have to be an administrative user and enter your credentials again, which makes it kind of inaccessible to most people without generating a department wide nagvis login.
4. NagVis: I think I might have requested this before but just in-case, v1.6 made significant improvements to the auto-map logic and your ability to generate customised auto-maps, an update from the 1.4 package would be amazing.
Well that ended up being a much longer post then I intended, hopefully there's some useful stuff in there somewhere
