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Hello All,

Is there an easy way to add links to the sidebar in Nagiox XI?

Basically I want to integrate NfSen/NfDump into my Nagios XI view without forcing it to be the homepage.

I watched the video on how to use NfSen within Nagios, but that is merely editing the homepage and using a custom URL, which is not really integrating it.

Is there a plugin or addon that allows me to add to the sidebar?

Thanks,
Jeff

You could do that with a component. @box293 gave a talk at a past conference on the topic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcULFg2dHLc

We also have some documentation:
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ios-XI.pdf

Your other option would be to use Javascript via the "Custom Includes" component to append a menu item. This Javascript does that, though you won't be able to collapse the custom section:
https://pastebin.com/k5KJAu14

You could change the target to maincontentframe if you wanted the link to load into the iframe and preserve the Nagios XI GUI.

Hey great! Thank-you for the response.

I will take a look at the pastebin option and see if I can't make that work.

Again, Thanks!

Jeff

Thanks for the update Jeff. Keep us posted on your progress or if you need anything else.

Thanks,

So the javascript method doesn't seem to work in XI 5.4.0. I left the example intact just to see if it would work, and I do not see the Custom header anywhere.

Ultimately, I just want an easy way to monitor some Netflow data on my network and Nfsen/Nfdump provides the data I need. Integrating that tool into Nagios in the same way the other things like NagVis is what I was looking for, but without having to code a lot. The option of adding a tool also seems to work for this, which may satisfy my needs, but having it on the main sidebar would be ideal.

As with everything, I will keep hacking away until I get something to work.

Jeff

Did you do a hard refresh (crtl+f5) when adding the Javascript? I had to do that to get it to render correctly.

The end result in case there's confusion:

Ok so, just to be sure I understand.

I save the js snippet from pastebin into a .js file.
Then upload it to the Custom Includes component.
Then hard refresh.

Is there anything else I need to do to get the menu to show?

Jeff

Edit:

And check the box

You might need to reload the parent frame. I did this by clicking the big "Nagios XI" link at the top-left.

Yep it works now that I checked the box next to the js file I uploaded.

Excellent work. Thank-you!

Thanks for the update. Can we lock the thread or did you have any more questions?