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This is mainly a shot in the dark feature request.

It would be really nice if we could generate a static image of a dashboard page (say png) using a backend url
periodically (say every 5 minutes) that we could put on a publicly accessible page without requiring authentication.

I wouldn't want to give anyone the backend url since that would give them access to the links on the page as well
and since it would a relatively public page, it would be possible that dozens of users could be trying to refresh
the page at any given time and overload the database.
(The one I want to do now has >100 hosts and several graphs so it takes several seconds to refresh.)

I'm going to look into using something line CutyCapt on linux next week to see if I can do it myself, but it would
be really nice to have that built-in to Nagios XI since the dashboards seem to be a great way to publish near realtime
custom service status to a large audience.

So you're saying if your Nagios XI server is 10.10.10.10, you want to be able to access something like 10.10.10.10/dashboardx.jpg? I could put in a feature request for this, but I can't guarantee that it will be implemented. Let me know if this is what your idea is.

Yes, that would be great. Just something that would periodically regenerate to match the current dashboard (I'm guessing 5 minutes would be sufficient) and that we could allow customers to view without requiring authentication or giving them the ability to follow links or generate a refresh of the dashboard.

I know it's just a feature request, but If we don't ask, we'll never get it
Besides, it would be a great marketing tool for Nagios XI.

Feature request 7827 has been submitted.