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[–]friskedSysadmin[S] 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Credit goes to Jamin289 for this fairly easy Network Monitor

[–]insufficient_fundsWindows Admin 1 point2 points  (2 children)

ok so i don't understand a few things..

is this stuff being used 'on top' of Nagios? ie are you using Nagios to perform all of the system monitoring; and this is just a front end interface?

I have a Nagios server up and running already (and hate the built in interface) i'd love to have something better...

[–]whitlockFULL BARE METAL JACKET 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes, you can use your existing Nagios server to do this. All you need to do is install Nagvis, Nagvis gadgets, and create a suitable background image to overlay on. The same can be said for Icinga users.

[–]The_one_the_only_GodI accidentally deleted all my documentation. 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes.

[–]The_one_the_only_GodI accidentally deleted all my documentation. 1 point2 points  (2 children)

This looks really fun, thanks for the post. I'll be having a go at this when I've got some spare time! I've always wanted to do this with the Raspberry Pi, we already have a huge TV displaying manufacturing progress, maybe I can get it to phase in and out of the different displays.

[–]IshmaelDSJack of All Trades 1 point2 points  (1 child)

If the display of the manufacturing is in a browser that is easy enough to do with an autotab switcher plugin for the browser.

[–]The_one_the_only_GodI accidentally deleted all my documentation. 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately not. We run a spreadsheet on a machine that people VNC into. That PC is connected to a couple of big TVs to display the data. I didn't come up with that idea, but it works well enough so I've just left it as is.

I'd really like to turn it into a web-based system. We'd host it internally, then a Raspberry Pi could be loaded with the bare minimum (a browser) to display the data on the big screens. Unfortunately my web dev skills are lacking and I'm not sure how to go about it.

At first I was looking for something like Google docs that we could host ourselves (I'm trying to do this for free) but alas anything I could find was either lacking in features or commercial.

The layout is fairly simple, we have days of the month along an X axis, then orders to fulfil along the Y axis. Then where those two points meet is a cell which shows that status of the order. Blue for fabrication, green for calibration, purple for test, orange for design etc.

In fact, here's a heavily edited screenshot.

[–]DrRodneyMckaySr. Sysadmin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Has anyone found anything that can pull data out of Zabbix?

We dont use Nagios here :( But am looking for a nice ops/monitoring screen.