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Is there a way to create a comments only dashboard?

I don't see a way for this.

The only way I see all of the comments are in the Incident Management --> Acknowledgements page.

We have so many automatic maintenance time frames that it makes finding single user acknowledgements very problematic.
Our managers don't want a dashboard filled with "This service has been scheduled for fixed downtime from.."
They want one that shows user commentary. Any suggestions?

A workaround would be to log into Nagios Core using your XI IP 192.168.x.xxx/nagios, and you should see a comments tab under System that displays for all hosts/services.

Like I said. That doesn't help. It is riddled with hundreds of:

This host has been scheduled for fixed downtime from <Time Frame>. Notifications for the host will not be sent out during that time period.

Which for management to look at and have to go through is pointless.
Is there a way to keep scheduled downtime from posting a comment?

this would make a good feature request, pretty easy too.

There is no way currently to do so.

Could you explain which feature request you would like?

Keep scheduled downtime from posting a comment or showing "comments" only page with the ability to filter per user?

Separate scheduled downtime comment for host and sevices from other comments on host and services.

In a nutshell Acknowledgements that are scheduled as downtime vs those entered individually. Ability to separate those.

I filed an internal feature request for this functionality. It may or may not be added.

If added, it will show up in the changelog.

https://www.nagios.com/downloads/nagios-xi/change-log/

Are there any more questions or are we okay to lock this up?