Organizing Host Groups

[krw]

Migrating from an ancient Whatsup gold install to nagios and having a bit of time with it.

Can I have a host group part of another host group?

We have lots of makes and models of dslams and with screen real estate in Core
limited be nice to group things like we do with WUP.

Basically:

Dslams
|
Paradyne --> Group 1 --> Dslams 1-8
--> Group 2 --> Dslams 9-15
--> Group 3 --> Dslams 16-25
--> Group 4 --> Dsams 26-34
CopperMountain --> Dslam 1
--> Dslam 2
Make 3 --> Dslam 1
--> Dslam 2

Cant quite seem to figure out how to do this.

Edit: I created 2 host groups with 8 dslams in each named Group 1 and Group 2. I created a host group called Dslams and added
Group 1 and Group 2 as members of Dslams and it shows all 16 devices under Dslams, instead of what I expected to see just
two headings called Group 1 and Group 2.

Anyway around this?
Thanks.

[lmiltchev]

This is a default behavior in Nagios XI. If you need to get these hostgroups organized so that you will see all hostgroups members of another hostgroup, you can use Nagios XI dashboards to do so. You can organize them any way you want. For example, you can add a new dashboard, called "Dslams":
Dashboards->Dashboard Tools->Add New Dashboard
Then you can go to:
Home->Details->Hostgroup Overview, find "Group 1" and "Group 2", and add them to the newly created dashboard "Dslams". You can do this by clicking on the "Add This To A Dashboard" icon in the upper left corner of each group's window.
The new members will appear on the dashboard:

dslams.PNG

[krw]

Hi. Thanks. I see how that's done. I had played around with dashboards a bit but was not sure
of their functionality. Now I have a better idea on that.

As we have literally hundreds of things we monitor with our current NMS, how do you pack all
of those hundreds of things into a non-expanded view? I'm not going to be able to fit all 150+
of our dslams onto one dashboard.

We have well over a hundred router and switch ports we monitor as well as a or so dozen servers,
I don't see how I can get a full network overview on one screen.

I guess one might use the create view options and rotate through them.

Currently on our NMS there are 14 icons on the main screen, and drilling down into those icons
will show the status of various portions of our network, switches,routers, dslams, servers, cmts,
city1, city2, radio links etc.

I'd like that same functionality with nagios. A big overview screen with the ability to drill down
into each area. Maybe a dashboard of sub-dashboards? Just trying to keep down the clutter and
number of screens we have.

EDIT: actually I see HostGroup Summary can be added to a dashboard. That might work. Going
back to play with this some more.

Thanks!

[lmiltchev]

We would really appreciate your feedback on the dashboards! You can also this this out - it is another route you can probably go:

http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Ad ... 29/details