How To Display Dashboard Map Permanently

[kingofthebr]

Hello,

I have Nagios Xi and I have created a dashboard map that I would like to display on a wall mounted screen in our IT office. The screen has a pc attached to it where we can pull up a internet browser and log into to Nagios, but I fear it will timeout after less than half and hour and probably defeat the purpose of what I'm trying to do.

I basically want to setup the map so we can see our network and quickly see if something has went down. It seems silly to have a map or diagram that I can only see when logged into the console on my PC. Any ideas?

[dwhitfield]

I think you'll find https://exchange.nagios.com/directory/A ... nt/details useful.

You should find the component pre-installed. You can access it from the main page, in the lowerish left, under the section called Maps.

Let's assume for a moment you don't see BBMap there. What version of XI are you running?

[kingofthebr]

I'm running version 5.2.9

[dwhitfield]

Do you not see BBMap? It's been around since at least 5.2.1 (just looking at https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... NGES-5.TXT) If you go into Manage Components, can you add BBMap. It is very useful for NOCs. There other NOC components.

Also, you can edit session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440 in "/etc/php.ini" so that it is whatever you want it to be. I guess it depends if you really want it not to timeout or not.

[kingofthebr]

I do see BBMAP that's not what I was asking really. What I was asking for if there was a plugin or a display url that you can access specifically for displaying the map. I like Hypermap and BBmap is fine too, but now I need a login and I have to worry about the session timing out.

What I have done now was create a readonly account and added the Hypermap to the dashboard. After adjusting the map view, I was able to refresh the page it would appear as I wanted for the most part. Then I downloaded an auto-refresh Chrome extension that would refresh the tab every 15 minutes. So now I can leave it up all the time. It's a workaround and it's really not what I was asking for, but it'll serve.

[kingofthebr]

Thank you for the session timeout file location. This can really help.

[dwhitfield]

I have to worry about the session timing out.

So, setting the refresh interval in /etc/php.ini is not an option? The line you are looking for is session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440. If you don't see it, you can add it. Setting the timeout appropriately. The default appears to be 24 minutes.