Display NOC on remote Web Screen with update interval

[huskgrah]

Good Day: I have done about 80% of the configuring and set-up for Nagios XI. The next phase of the roll out is to have a web browser screen (IP address access to NOC/Operations for public display). This is meant for display only and will not be used interactively. I am wondering what is the best way to accomplish this. I have done much web searching and am no closer to determining the most reliable and functional device arrangement.

Graham Husk

[tmcdonald]

You would need some sort of keyboard/mouse setup to control the screen at some point, whether attached directly or via RDP or something. Beyond that, the display device itself does not matter though I tend to like a large projector personally in a NOC.

[huskgrah]

The screen we want to use is a commercial 52". I think we will use a Raspberry Pi as the computer back end for the screen then. Cheap, small and Linux.

Will there be any issue with account time outs?

Graham Husk

[tmcdonald]

Most likely that will depend on the page you use and whether/how it refreshes. For example, the Operations Screen refreshes itself every 10 seconds, so your session should stay valid as long as it keeps refreshing. Others if they are static will likely have your session expire after some time.

[rkennedy]

There could be, and with that you can easily bypass sessions timing out by appending ?username=&ticket= to your URL, matched with the API key for the respective user. For example -

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http://192.168.3.116/nagiosxi/?username=nagiosadmin&ticket=uui5lt5s

You can append this to any page.

[highness]

We have 4 x 52" monitors in our NOC and have a computer hooked up to them all (a Mac) and have a browser opened on each monitor with the Operations View running on one of the monitors along with other web pages displayed on the other monitors. We've forced the Mac to turn off power saving / screen saver mode. It runs 24/7 and doesn't have any issues.

[rkennedy]

Thanks for letting us know @highness! I would of thought they'd expire.

@huskgrah - let us know if you have any further questions.

[huskgrah]

Thank you very much. This confirms the validity of the idea and helps with the gotchas.

Graham Husk

[rkennedy]

No problem, are we good to mark this thread as resolved?