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Greetings,

We are intending use of Nagios providing up/ down status of Virtual protection groups and individual servers within for Disaster recovery failover testing. Questions I have that forums don't seem to cover exactly are:
1. Is there ways to customize UI/ Dashlets conforming to how our Org. naming convention exists? (Reverse naming of Hosts and Services)
2. I suspect answer to above question is no, is there a dashlet out there that behaves like a legend or are text box and text box advanced dashlets the only way we can customize our UI?
3. I understand that preferred ordering of services/ hosts can only be done by prepending naming. I want to display identical monitors side by side with differing ordering of data so we can watch servers come up as they are failed over. I do not see how Nagios can accommodate this request.
Any assistance is appreciated.

If I am being obtuse at all, my apologies, I am new to the product.

Robert

Hello, @RobertSCH. I'd like to help you but I need some more clarification.

What kind of dashlets are you referring to? Host and Service summary dashlets? Could you provide a screenshot?

Could you show some existing hosts and services on a screenshot so that I could understand what the "reverse naming" would be?

Is there a dashlet out there that behaves like a legend or are text box

Yes, you could create labels using this dashlet:
https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/A ... ed/details

I understand that preferred ordering of services/ hosts can only be done by prepending naming.

Could you also provide a screenshot for this?

I want to display identical monitors side by side with differing ordering of data so we can watch servers come up as they are failed over.

Could you add hosts into 2 hostgroups and open the "hostgroup overview" for 2 different hostgroups on two screens? Or use the Operations Center component to do the same?

Apologies for delayed response, I have been tinkering with the dashlets and discovered your object definitions paper. This pretty much answered my questions as you don't really support our configuration per se. You do to a level Hosts->Services; we are looking for not only hosts and services but Virtual protection groups 3 priority levels within our virtual environment.

I did not post screenshots due to considerable level of protected data and blanking this out makes the screenie virtually unusable.

What I did come up with is:
Host Status Summary | Text box dashlet | Service Status Summary

| HOST GROUP SUMMARY | SERVICE GROUP SUMMARY |
(with high priority hosts) (with Virtual Protection groups/ Hosts and Services)

Thanks for swift reply, lots of tinkering left to do to get what I need out of the dashboard.

Robert

Robert, is it ok then to close this topic or you want us to keep it open for the time being?

Please close this request, I do not need further assistance at this time.