Multi Tenant Question

[krw]

The deploy dashboards component should still be in 5.2.9, I just looked on one of my systems.

I have a dashboard setup for two hostgroups. I'd like for someone to click a link and
be taken directly to that dashboard without them having to login etc.

is this possible to pass parameters in the web link to XI that would make this work?

I didn't see this option offered - you can append &username=&ticket= to the dashboard URL, and 'auto-login' using the API key. The ticket= parameter will be equal to your API key when you click the username you are logged in as.

For example -

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https://192.168.1.1/nagiosxi/dashboards/dashboard.php?id=d7mccig7&username=nagiosadmin&ticket=43gs35f

I was playing around with the API key functions the last day or two. Main problem for this now is getting
the dashboard URL. Is that something I can get via the deploy dashboard function?

I definitely do not have the Dashboard component installed in the core for some reason. Support is actually current
but cannot download it via library. Going to give it another try and update to latest version right now.

Thanks,
Keith

[rkennedy]

I would right click and look for something like a 'copy location url' - this will give you the direct URL to the dashboards outside of the frames.

Let us know how the update goes and if you have any further questions.

[krw]

I would right click and look for something like a 'copy location url' - this will give you the direct URL to the dashboards outside of the frames.

Let us know how the update goes and if you have any further questions.

Well, after opening a ticket with support folk directly (turns out we have contract for a while yet) and
going over a few things, our current install of NagiosXI is in a non-supportable state. It is missing a bunch
of core components, not just deploy dashboard.

So had our ESX admin grab the latest OVA and spin up a new VM of XI and wow what a difference. There is
stuff there I had no idea was part of nagios. Deploy Dashboard is there. Workflows for adding hosts are
different, new options have appeared.

We have been using XI for quite a while, and I inherited this from another admin and I just kept updating it
as new versions came out, but I had no idea.

I don't know whether to import all the hosts from the old Nagios, or just start from scratch and add hosts.
I think it might be better to just start adding hosts rather than import. And I have to get the licensing switched
over too.

Thanks for the help.
Keith

[avandemore]

Hi Keith,

You might want to review this:

Backing Up And Restoring Your Nagios XI System

Using this procedure you can migrate your data to clean system.

[krw]

Hi Keith,

You might want to review this:

Backing Up And Restoring Your Nagios XI System

Using this procedure you can migrate your data to clean system.

I have read this procedure, but am somewhat hesitant to do this as our current XI is missing so much
that I'm afraid of importing cruft that will mess up the new install.

I'm thinking that it might be better to just start adding new hosts from scratch.

Thanks,
Keith

[avandemore]

It's possible you might end up with unneeded/wanted items. However it's going to be safe to do this:
Migrating From Nagios Core

XI is built on top of Core so you can just migrate the Core configuration files from the old system without fear of bringing too much with you. If you have only a small amount of hosts/services/contacts though it's probably not worth it.