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Is there an easy way to modify the left menu in Nagios XI? This is easy to do in Nagios Core(side.php). I need to move a few of the menu items around and possibly add a few links to external web pages. It would be nice to 'bold' some of the menu items like the Nagios Core Menu. Is there a single file I can modify/hack?

Thanks in advance.

This is somewhat advanced, but you could create a custom component to add menu items. We have a doc that goes over placing menu items via components

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... opment.pdf

Thanks for the reply - is there an easier way to modify the left menu than writing a custom component? I'm not a programmer and need to make some changes to the left menu. I'm willing to manually make changes to files. This was very easy to do with Nagios Core and our networking group requires that we move/add some menu options. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

Unfortunately that left menu is built on the fly based on all of the components you have installed...

Some aspects can be added or adjusted to the side menu via the php script found at /usr/local/nagiosxi/html/includes/utils-menu.inc.php.
Though I don't know how safe it is. I went in here to add some additional menu/links manually.... but they were very standalone.

I'll also mention that if any damage results from editing files, we can't really support you unless you are running stock files.