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Learning Nagios 3.0

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Learning Nagios 3.0

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Learning Nagios 3.0
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface

Using the Web Interface


Nagios Web interface always offers a menu in the left frame, while current information is shown in the remaining area. You can easily access all views from the left-side menu.

In case you want to replace the standard Nagios welcome screen with your own, all you need to do is change the /opt/nagios/share/main.html file. As this page is shown to everyone after they log in correctly, it can be used to provide administrators with some guidelines on how Nagios monitoring is used within your company, and what should be done in certain circumstances. It can also be used to define links to commonly-checked hosts and commonly-accessed services.

It is also possible to extend the left side menu, which is defined in the /opt/nagios/share/side.html file. This way, quick links can be added to the menu and/or unused functionality can be removed from it.

Henceforth in this chapter, we will use configuration that is far more complex than the one we created in the previous chapter....