Custom Dashlets

[rks]

I manage a number of Jabber servers with Nagios XI. I need to
display the Top 5 processes by CPU usage and memory usage
in a dashboard.

Is there a readymade dashlet for this purpose or would I have to create it?
If the latter, could you please point me to how I could create a custom
dashlet to display info from the managed devices?

thanks,

[abrist]

We really do not have a guide yet for custom dashlets. There was a presentation at our last conference that touched on this however:
http://www.slideshare.net/nagiosinc/nag ... -nagios-xi
My suggestion would be to pick apart the code of a simple dashlet to learn how they work and then build your own from that. I will make a note on our internal wiki that custom dashlet documentation is needed.

[rks]

The "status dashlet" comes close to my need. Now, I have not enabled eitehr NRPE or
check_by_ssh plugin to determine the load or the available swap space on the managed servers.
Hence when I enable the dashlet for a managed server, it shows only the service status.

Do I understand right that I simply need to enable the check_by_ssh plug in for the managed server
for the dashlet to then render their performance status?

Thanks,

[abrist]

Could you post a link to the "status dashlet" download?

[rks]

by abrist » Thu May 30, 2013 4:04 pm

Could you post a link to the "status dashlet" download?

http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Ad ... et/details

thanks,

[slansing]

You should be able to control what the dashlet shows via the check boxes after you click the "dashify" icon, I was able to get it to display the full information on the service I chose for it to update on. "This was by leaving everything default."