Templates, BPI and Dashboards

[rexmundo]

Hiya!

I am new to Nagios XI.. I had a good play with it and read up on a lot of the stuff.. There are some shortcomings that I would really appreciate if someone has a view on them:

1) When using templates, how can you see the resulting total config of the host or service, which expands the inheritance and allows you to understand whats going wrong.

2) Dashboards.. How can you get dashboards to just plot for example just the "free space" and not total disk space and used disk space?

3) Anyone managed to get BPI working with mod_gearman? I can get remote workers to evaluate and runs plugins, vCentre checks using box293 plugin, but the the pseudo-host and pseudo-service that gets created seem to only work if you run them on the local worker.

Thanks!

[benjaminsmith]

Hi @rexmundo,

Thanks for giving Nagios XI a try, we hope you like it! And welcome to the Support Forum.

Some great questions.

1. The best place to see the whole configuration is objects.cache. Additonally this file is really helpful for troubleshooting any configuration errors.

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/usr/local/nagios/var/objects.cache

2. What is ploted the graph is what's returned by the plugin. Take a look at the options on the plugin, you maybe able modify the check to return free space instead of used disk space.

3. This is a tricky one. I'm going to have to check the team on this and get some clarification. I will follow up shortly.

Regards,
Benjamin