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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?

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?

I'm running version 5.2.9

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.

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.

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

kingofthebr wrote: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.