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Dear Expert

When link goes down, in Operation Center its giving alert (normal behave...great), now in Nagios-2014R2.0 there is great enhancement that one click will show the detail of the link but it shows only Link Status not bandwidth (performance graph).

FYI, in Cisco or Networking, Link Status and Bandwidth (Performance Graph) are like couple, just single not enough, is there any feature/option to see the both same time. I mean when there is link down alert (Status Critical) , when we click for detail of the link , there should be Bandwidth option for that link.

Please bear and read , whenever we see our customer link down, we have to check whether its in use, that we can check easy if there is Service (Bandwidth) Performance Graph of the same link and its giving idea what priority we have to work, many time our customer not using the links but keeping up and taking down after week or month, so when link goes down and if we able to see the bandwidth utilization same time, we can easy judge they using or not and accordingly that we take action.

Currently when click Status there is TAB for performance graph but showing => No performance graphs were found for this service. If you have just started monitoring this object then it may take up to 15 minutes for the performance graphs to appear.........Here you can show the Bandwidth (rrd) graph of the same link.....it will be great great.

In our old NMS, there was no such concept of Status and Bandwidth , just simply LINK DOWN, you check the graph (bandwidth) Link Utilization and Status History (link up/time Statistics), in Nagios we little missing, there is no time to do extra steps when we monitoring thousands of links, so we want easy steps, just one or two clicks only.

Regards

This is not currently implemented in XI, and I think I can give an explanation as to why.

From the Nagios point of view, a service is a service. Whether it is active or passive, Windows or Linux, Ping or CPU, in the end all that really sets them apart is the plugin being run. There are no "tags" that distinguish one type of check from another, so there is no way for Nagios to know that two services should be related in the way you have described it.

It would certainly be possible to do if you click the host instead of the individual services, in which case you will see all the service graphs in one page. But as you describe it, linking two services together is not currently possible.

Dear tmcdonald

I think NagiosXI developer team can bind both services as below , if there is exact == exact match then go ahead otherwise whatever current message coming is okay.

jdn-ons-1 ,, FastEthernet1/0/10 Status
jdn-ons-1 ,, FastEthernet1/0/10 Bandwidth

Just need to check/change last word , Status ==> Bandwidth

Regards

I understand that it is possible, but it is not currently on our to-do list. If this is a feature you want to see implemented, then as I mentioned before it can either be filed as a feature request or if you need it done on a schedule you can request custom development from our Sales department.

Dear tmcdonald

If we ask for custom change, there is commercial involve and no company management will agree quickly, so as we are end user and its minor thing, NagiosXI developer team should think for end user , more user friendly , more recommendation , more + vote then sure more NagiosXI deployment and Nagios will get more money

In this 2-3 months, me looking for minor enhancement , some we got after upgrade from 2012 to 2014 , some we did, some requesting to you....

me always thinking NagiosXI such a beautiful NMS (compare to our old NMS) but why minor minor thing missing here which was there in old NMS.

Regards

I will file an internal feature request for this.

NagiosXI developer team should think for end user , more user friendly , more recommendation , more + vote then sure more NagiosXI deployment and Nagios will get more money

We are continually thinking about better ways to improve user experience and nagios' usage possibilities. In all honesty, this has never been requested before and as tmcdonald mentioned, it is not something that nagios was inherently designed to do.

In this 2-3 months, me looking for minor enhancement , some we got after upgrade from 2012 to 2014 , some we did, some requesting to you....

Free feature requests can take time, we take bug fixes and paid feature requests first in line, then work on free in order of number of requests and usefulness overall. If you feel there is something we are missing that would make a major contribution, or that you need for a customer immediately, you are welcome to contact [email protected] and we can work to expedite that.

me always thinking NagiosXI such a beautiful NMS (compare to our old NMS) but why minor minor thing missing here which was there in old NMS.

Thank you for thinking so highly of us! The differences between products and implementations, as you have found, can be vast. We neither try nor want to emulate other monitoring products, we are Nagios after all. So naturally there will be differences just because of that alone. Hopefully we have made it clear that we welcome feature requests and new ideas, however continually comparing us to a different product is unfair to everyone.

As for something that might help this situation, we have a component called Quick Actions that can be found on exchange. You should be able to use this to add a link to your service status check to the bandwidth graph page just by using the direct uri. This will give you a single click from the interface status pages, to the bandwidth graph or report pages.

Dear Expert

NOTES URL , ACTION URL using first time , while testing....

CCM Service , frw-malc-2 , 1-9-33-0 Status , Misc Settings

In the Notes URL I added
http://192.168.55.66/nagiosxi/includes/ ... &dest=auto

In the Action URL I added
www.nagios.com

but while checking frw-malc-2 , 1-9-33-0 Status just showing two default options

Enable notifications
Schedule a forced immediate check

Regards

You are better off using the "actions" component. See:
http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... ponent.pdf

Dear Abrist

I tried but no success. As first time me trying to use, not adding any Macro/ARG , just simple text

http://www.nagiosc.com or http://www.bbcnews.com , Notes URL or Action URL , not showing under the Quick Actions.

I tried with Service, no luck ; tried with Host , no luck.

Is there any prerequisites?

define host {
host_name frw-malc-2
use xiwizard_switch_host
alias Is it Host Alias , mAy be
display_name FARmalc2TsT
address frw-malc-2
max_check_attempts 2
check_interval 1
retry_interval 1
check_period xi_timeperiod_24x7
contacts zmycontacts
notification_interval 0
notification_period 24x7
first_notification_delay 0
notification_options d,u,r,f,
notifications_enabled 1
notes_url http://192.168.55.66/nagiosxi/includes/ ... &dest=auto
action_url http://www.bbcnews.com
icon_image switch.png
statusmap_image switch.png
_hostinfo MLC2 TstPurpoz
_xiwizard switch
register 1
}

define service {
host_name frw-malc-2
service_description 1-9-33-0 Status
use xiwizard_switch_port_status_service
display_name Plz Ignore Notification Test 109-FrWMalc2 9-33
check_command check_xi_service_ifoperstatus!public!903!-v 2!!!!!
max_check_attempts 5
check_interval 5
retry_interval 1
check_period xi_timeperiod_24x7
notification_interval 0
notification_period 24x7
notification_options w,c,u,r,f,s,
notifications_enabled 0
contacts zmycontacts
notes_url http://192.168.55.66/nagiosxi/includes/ ... &dest=auto
action_url http://www.nagios.com
_xiwizard switch
register 1
}

As me trying , found something (I mean succeed as below but still not solving my issue).

Admin Manage Componets Action Settings
http://192.168.55.66/nagiosxi/admin/com ... ig=actions

I added below but not working as appearing 1-9-33-0 Status (not the bandwidth)
http://192.168.55.66/nagiosxi/includes/ ... &dest=auto

No , no luck, when we select Status (under Quick Actions) only showing default, no NOTES URL, no ACTION URL.

I saw your reply => http://support.nagios.com/forum/viewtop ... 620#p47790
http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... ionurl.zip << is this required ? FYI, we already having belowActions ,, Adds custom actions to hosts and services. ,, Version: 1.4 Author: Nagios Enterprises, LLC (1.4 Up to date)

Regards