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The title says it all.

I want to setup an overhead NOC screen with several Xi operations screen popouts in a rotating scheme. (firefox plugin does the rotating)
They need to remain logged in at ALL times. So I need permalinks.
As far as I can see Xi has a permalink option for the complete frame.
How can I get only the popout? To display relevant info the menu bars and TOC's are literally out the window.

Not 100% sure what you want, but it sounds like you want just the OpScreen without the navigation pane?

If so, why won't this URL work?

http://192.168.1.100/nagiosxi/includes/ ... screen.php

Because it's session expires after x time.
The noc screen is an unattended monitor which needs to stay logged on 24/7

You could go to Operations Screen and click on the blue arrow in the upper-left corner to hide the menus. The page should then refresh every 30 seconds. However, your session will be still timing our, based on the setting in the "php.ini" file:
There is a possible workaround even though I haven't tested it. You could try using Firefox browser with the "ReloadEvery" addon and set the browser to refresh the page every so often. There may be other ways for accomplishing this goal.

I've managed an acceptable solution by rigging Firefox with the following addons:|
Reload Every = reloads the url's according to predefined interval, preventing session time-outs.
Tile Tabs = Tiles multiple urls in one windows (Multiple layouts available)
Tab rotator = Shows active url for x seconds and then shows the next.

I enable Reload Every to reload every minute
Tile tabs using 2x2 layout
Set Tab rotator interval to 5 seconds.

That gives me one browserwindow with 4 urls. Which make way for the next 4 after 20 seconds (4 urls x 5 seconds active = 20sec.)
I have a total of 28 urls to check, so every url passes by every 140 seconds.
We have 2 engineering teams with their own customers, so dividing the above by two, a roundtrip will pass in 70 sec.

This is more or less acceptable. But we would prefer an out-of-the-box solution instead of depending on 3rd party add on's.
Can we expect this in Nagios in the near future?

I am glad you were able to make this work!

Can we expect this in Nagios in the near future?

I am not sure. I've seen several requests about this functionality already so I believe this is something that we need to consider implementing. Do you want to post a feature request on our bug tracker? I can post one for you internally if you want me to. Thanks!