NagVis is a visualization addon for the well known network managment system Nagios.
NagVis can be used to visualize Nagios Data, e.g. to display IT processes like a mail system or a network infrastructure.
Project News
NagVis on Nagios Workshop 2009
The Nagios Workshop is a community powered event in Germany. In 2009 it came back to it's home town Kassel where the first workshop happened in 2005.
The NagVis team was also present with a presentation about the current progress and the roadmap for the next versions. You can download the german slides from Nagios-Wiki
The NagVis team was also present with a presentation about the current progress and the roadmap for the next versions. You can download the german slides from Nagios-Wiki
NagVis moved to Git
The last days we moved our version control system from Subversion to Git. At the moment the nightly doc export and the nightly build are not migrated - we work on it.
You may take a look at the gitweb. Or access the repository in read-only (git://nagvis.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/nagvis) mode.
If you experience any problems please let us know.
You may take a look at the gitweb. Or access the repository in read-only (git://nagvis.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/nagvis) mode.
If you experience any problems please let us know.
NagVis 1.4.1 released
We just released the version 1.4.1 of NagVis. This release includes minor improvements and minor bugfixes.
For a detailed technical view on the latests changes take a look at the changelog.
You can download the new version via the download-page.
For a detailed technical view on the latests changes take a look at the changelog.
You can download the new version via the download-page.
NagVis 1.4 final released
We are proud to announce the new release 1.4 of NagVis.
The focus of this release is to make NagVis more scalable for big maps and environments. We also wanted to reduce load peaks on the NagVis servers. For these reasons we recoded the complete map reload in a defined interval to a powerful javascript fronted which fetches the current status of objects in the background via AJAX.
Furthermore we changed the language file format to gettext - this performs a lot better than the old XML format. We now have french language support included with NagVis again. Plus we added a caching mechanism to configuration file parsing code.
The new Javascript frontend gives us many new possibilies to react on state changes. We created some example event handlers. For example you can configure NagVis to highlight a map object on state change with a flashing border. NagVis can also play sounds on some state changes.
We added another powerful feature called "context menus". You have a context (right-click) menu on each map object to fire some custom actions. For example you can browse to the Nagios webinterface for scheduling a downtime just with 2 clicks. There is a small guide on how to open an ssh session using the new context menus. The context menus are template based so it is easy to create own custom context menus.
The lines were recoded not to use the gdlibs anymore. The lines use canvas when the used browser supports that element. If the browser does not support canvas (e.g. Internet Explorer) the lines are rendered with divs - this takes more time and memory than the canvas lines.
We Introduced Gadgets, a new view on service objects. Gadgets are small dynamic php scripts which parse a dynamic image depending on the current perfdata of a service or a host object. You can create fancy charts and graphs using the gadgets. See the gadget download page for some nice gadgets. If you created some gadget and like to share it with other users just let us know. For more details take a look at the gadgets page in the NagVis documentation.
The WUI was also tuned a lot. We dropped the browser popup windows and recoded the dialogs to Javascript powered dialogs. The number of object attributes grew a lot so we decided to recode the add/modify dialogs to support parent/child attributes. Unset attributes show their inherited values as long as you configure something other to them. Most dropdown fields can be changed to textfields if you like to set some special values.
We added two backends to the main NagVis code. You can now connect NagVis to ndo2fs. Ndo2fs is a lightweight alternative to the default MySQL based NDO.
Secondly we added the backend called MerlinMy. This backend connects NagVis to merlin MySQL databases. The merlin database will be used as backend for Ninja a new webinterface for Nagios.
These are only the most important changes to NagVis. You can find a detailed technical view on the latests changes in the changelog.
You can download NagVis via the download page.
Have fun using NagVis 1.4 and please report any problems and bugs.
The focus of this release is to make NagVis more scalable for big maps and environments. We also wanted to reduce load peaks on the NagVis servers. For these reasons we recoded the complete map reload in a defined interval to a powerful javascript fronted which fetches the current status of objects in the background via AJAX.
Furthermore we changed the language file format to gettext - this performs a lot better than the old XML format. We now have french language support included with NagVis again. Plus we added a caching mechanism to configuration file parsing code.
The new Javascript frontend gives us many new possibilies to react on state changes. We created some example event handlers. For example you can configure NagVis to highlight a map object on state change with a flashing border. NagVis can also play sounds on some state changes.
We added another powerful feature called "context menus". You have a context (right-click) menu on each map object to fire some custom actions. For example you can browse to the Nagios webinterface for scheduling a downtime just with 2 clicks. There is a small guide on how to open an ssh session using the new context menus. The context menus are template based so it is easy to create own custom context menus.
The lines were recoded not to use the gdlibs anymore. The lines use canvas when the used browser supports that element. If the browser does not support canvas (e.g. Internet Explorer) the lines are rendered with divs - this takes more time and memory than the canvas lines.
We Introduced Gadgets, a new view on service objects. Gadgets are small dynamic php scripts which parse a dynamic image depending on the current perfdata of a service or a host object. You can create fancy charts and graphs using the gadgets. See the gadget download page for some nice gadgets. If you created some gadget and like to share it with other users just let us know. For more details take a look at the gadgets page in the NagVis documentation.
The WUI was also tuned a lot. We dropped the browser popup windows and recoded the dialogs to Javascript powered dialogs. The number of object attributes grew a lot so we decided to recode the add/modify dialogs to support parent/child attributes. Unset attributes show their inherited values as long as you configure something other to them. Most dropdown fields can be changed to textfields if you like to set some special values.
We added two backends to the main NagVis code. You can now connect NagVis to ndo2fs. Ndo2fs is a lightweight alternative to the default MySQL based NDO.
Secondly we added the backend called MerlinMy. This backend connects NagVis to merlin MySQL databases. The merlin database will be used as backend for Ninja a new webinterface for Nagios.
These are only the most important changes to NagVis. You can find a detailed technical view on the latests changes in the changelog.
You can download NagVis via the download page.
Have fun using NagVis 1.4 and please report any problems and bugs.
Nominate NagVis for SourceForge Community Choice Awards 2009
The SourceForge Community Choice Awards 2009 nomination process has started. Show us your love for NagVis and Nominate NagVis for 'Best Tool or Utility for SysAdmins' and/or 'Best Project for the Enterprise' categories.
You can nominate NagVis here: http://sourceforge.net/community/cca09/nominate/?project_name=NagVis&project_url=http://www.nagvis.org/
You can nominate NagVis here: http://sourceforge.net/community/cca09/nominate/?project_name=NagVis&project_url=http://www.nagvis.org/
NagVis 1.4rc3 released
NagVis project just released the third release candidate of NagVis 1.4.
We changed line parsing to canvas for Firefox and other browsers which are able to handle these elements. Line parsing now performs much better in Firefox. Additionally we improved the dialogs in the WUI. We also added some minor bugfixes.
For details see the changelog in NagVis documentation.
You can download the release via the Download page.
We changed line parsing to canvas for Firefox and other browsers which are able to handle these elements. Line parsing now performs much better in Firefox. Additionally we improved the dialogs in the WUI. We also added some minor bugfixes.
For details see the changelog in NagVis documentation.
You can download the release via the Download page.
Super-Visions becomes first silver sponsor of NagVis project
We are happy to announce the first silver sponsor of the NagVis project is Super-Visions.
Super-Visions specializes primarily in monitoring solutions for medium to large businesses to enterprises and resellers. We specialize in mapping IT service management and business processes into the IT infrastructure monitoring flow. On top of that, we take the hassle out of IT backups by providing an effortless, off-site stored backup & disaster recovery without any user intervention.
For more details have a look at our sponsoring-page.
Super-Visions specializes primarily in monitoring solutions for medium to large businesses to enterprises and resellers. We specialize in mapping IT service management and business processes into the IT infrastructure monitoring flow. On top of that, we take the hassle out of IT backups by providing an effortless, off-site stored backup & disaster recovery without any user intervention.
For more details have a look at our sponsoring-page.
NagVis 1.4rc2 released
Today we announce the second release of NagVis 1.4.
We added a new backend for the new ndo2fs. Applied some performance fixes. Improved the WUI a bit and. We added also some major bugfixes.
For details see the changelog in NagVis documentation.
You can download the release via the Download page.
We added a new backend for the new ndo2fs. Applied some performance fixes. Improved the WUI a bit and. We added also some major bugfixes.
For details see the changelog in NagVis documentation.
You can download the release via the Download page.
New at NagVis: Enterprise Support and Sponsoring
From today the NagVis project offers Enterprise Support for companies using NagVis and providing solutions based on NagVis. We offer off-site support by mail and phone and even on-site support. Another aspect of the Enterprise Support is customizing and enhancing NagVis to your needs.
For further details see support-page.
Another new thing: You can become a sponsor of the NagVis project. This could be a good chance for you to point on your relations with NagVis. This is also a good thing for the motivation of the project team.
If you are interested have a look at the sponsoring-page.
For further details see support-page.
Another new thing: You can become a sponsor of the NagVis project. This could be a good chance for you to point on your relations with NagVis. This is also a good thing for the motivation of the project team.
If you are interested have a look at the sponsoring-page.
NagVis 1.4rc1 released
We are proud to release the first official release of NagVis 1.4. We start of with a rc version cause we had many testers using the developement code from subversion so we do not need a beta version.
The complete frontend has been rewritten to Javascript and AJAX. The whole maps and overview pages are not refreshed anymore. The pages are rendered once and refresh the status informations by ajax requests to the nagvis core.
There have been many improvements and other changes since 1.3 code. For details see the changelog in NagVis documentation.
You can download the release via the Download page.
The complete frontend has been rewritten to Javascript and AJAX. The whole maps and overview pages are not refreshed anymore. The pages are rendered once and refresh the status informations by ajax requests to the nagvis core.
There have been many improvements and other changes since 1.3 code. For details see the changelog in NagVis documentation.
You can download the release via the Download page.
NagVis 1.3.2 released
NagVis 1.3.2 is a minor bugfix release.
The following things have been changed:
* @ Signs are now allowed in several strings, for example usernames in allowed_for_config on maps
* The automap now recognizes the configured backend in hover menus
* Fixed static prefix when fetching hosts without parent
For details see NagVis 1.3 changelog.
You can download NagVis 1.3 via the download page.
The following things have been changed:
* @ Signs are now allowed in several strings, for example usernames in allowed_for_config on maps
* The automap now recognizes the configured backend in hover menus
* Fixed static prefix when fetching hosts without parent
For details see NagVis 1.3 changelog.
You can download NagVis 1.3 via the download page.
NagVis got the logo "NagiosPowered"
NagVis got the logo "NagiosPowered" at the Nagios Conference 2008 in Germany. NagVis is the second AddOn for Nagios, which was awarded this logo.
You can find details about this brand on the Nagios Enterprises page: http://www.nagios.com/services/branding/ .
You can find details about this brand on the Nagios Enterprises page: http://www.nagios.com/services/branding/ .
NagVis 1.3.1 released
NagVis 1.3.1 is a minor bugfix release.
The following things have been changed:
* Fixed hardcoded path in javascript code
* Fixed missing htmlBase path in automap javascript code
* htmlcgi in paths and backend can now be full url
* Fixed mysql error message when configured bad NDO instance name
* Spaces in usernames are now allowed
* The dbprefix can now be empty in NDO backend options
For details see NagVis 1.3 changelog.
You can download NagVis 1.3 via the download page.
The following things have been changed:
* Fixed hardcoded path in javascript code
* Fixed missing htmlBase path in automap javascript code
* htmlcgi in paths and backend can now be full url
* Fixed mysql error message when configured bad NDO instance name
* Spaces in usernames are now allowed
* The dbprefix can now be empty in NDO backend options
For details see NagVis 1.3 changelog.
You can download NagVis 1.3 via the download page.
New NagVis Documentation
The NagVis documentation was integrated in the NagVis homepage since years. The translation of the pages was not easy cause the docs were not versioned.
Now we'd like to get the documentation under version controll to ease the translation process. We put the docs as plain HTML pages with some frames for better navigation to the NagVis subversion-repository. The current files are exported every night to be accessible from the documentation-page.
We also plan to integrate the new docs to future NagVis releases for having an offline documentation.
Now we'd like to get the documentation under version controll to ease the translation process. We put the docs as plain HTML pages with some frames for better navigation to the NagVis subversion-repository. The current files are exported every night to be accessible from the documentation-page.
We also plan to integrate the new docs to future NagVis releases for having an offline documentation.
NagVis 1.3 final released
Today we got NagVis 1.3 final on the road. There are some major and minor fixes since 1.3rc5 in it.
For users of NagVis 1.2 or older versions there are many new features. Here some of them which might be interesting for you:
* NagVis Automap
* New Hover Menu with much more informations
* Hover Menu is now fetched on demand by ajax requests
* Improved summary output of all objects
* Downtime, Acknowledgment and Pending States are now recognized correctly
* Maintenance Mode (Map can be set to maintenance mode)
* Enhanced caching (Traffic will be less than ever)
* Index Page is now reloading
* Logo changes
* PHP 4 is not supported anymore (PHP 5.0 is lowest supported version)
There are a lot of other changes since the last stable release. For details see NagVis 1.3 changelog.
You can download NagVis 1.3 via the download page.
Have fun using this version, keep on reporting problems, submitting ideas and patches.
Note: If you're downloading directly from subversion: We have created a branch for 1.3. The trunk is now being used for the development of NagVis 1.4.
For users of NagVis 1.2 or older versions there are many new features. Here some of them which might be interesting for you:
* NagVis Automap
* New Hover Menu with much more informations
* Hover Menu is now fetched on demand by ajax requests
* Improved summary output of all objects
* Downtime, Acknowledgment and Pending States are now recognized correctly
* Maintenance Mode (Map can be set to maintenance mode)
* Enhanced caching (Traffic will be less than ever)
* Index Page is now reloading
* Logo changes
* PHP 4 is not supported anymore (PHP 5.0 is lowest supported version)
There are a lot of other changes since the last stable release. For details see NagVis 1.3 changelog.
You can download NagVis 1.3 via the download page.
Have fun using this version, keep on reporting problems, submitting ideas and patches.
Note: If you're downloading directly from subversion: We have created a branch for 1.3. The trunk is now being used for the development of NagVis 1.4.
NagVis 1.3rc5 released
This release has a couple of fixes in it, some of them are major fixes. For details see the 1.3 changelog.
Download: http://www.nagvis.org/downloads
Download: http://www.nagvis.org/downloads
NagVis 1.3rc4 released
This release has only two small fixes in it. There is no other bug we know about. Feel free to test NagVis 1.3 and report that faults you find. If there are no big problem reports in the next two to three weeks we'll release 1.3 as stable.
The following fixes has been made in this release:
* Bugfix: The regular expressions for value validation check in WUI will now be escaped correctly
* Bugfix: Fixed problem when fetching global backend default htmlcgi value
Download: http://www.nagvis.org/downloads
Changelog: http://www.nagvis.org/docs/1.3/changelog
The following fixes has been made in this release:
* Bugfix: The regular expressions for value validation check in WUI will now be escaped correctly
* Bugfix: Fixed problem when fetching global backend default htmlcgi value
Download: http://www.nagvis.org/downloads
Changelog: http://www.nagvis.org/docs/1.3/changelog
NagVis 1.3rc3 released
In the last days we fixed some bugs in NagVis 1.3rc2. There has also been some small improvements, e.g. we added the new NagVis logo and a new favicon to this release. Here a list of the changes:
* Added [obj_address] macro to service hover menus
* Favicon now also displays acknowledged/downtime states
* Small design changes (logo, favicon)
* WUI: Added check for php-mbstring to WUI
* Bugfix: The servicegroup alias is now shown in hover menu
* Bugfix: Fixed bug with ack/downtime state was overriding blank critical/warning states
* Bugfix: language changes were ignored cause of the language cache
* Bugfix: WUI The value validation check is now case-insensitive
These changes are a good step to a stable 1.3 version. Keep up reporting problems and new ideas.
Download: http://www.nagvis.org/downloads
Changelog: http://www.nagvis.org/docs/1.3/changelog
* Added [obj_address] macro to service hover menus
* Favicon now also displays acknowledged/downtime states
* Small design changes (logo, favicon)
* WUI: Added check for php-mbstring to WUI
* Bugfix: The servicegroup alias is now shown in hover menu
* Bugfix: Fixed bug with ack/downtime state was overriding blank critical/warning states
* Bugfix: language changes were ignored cause of the language cache
* Bugfix: WUI The value validation check is now case-insensitive
These changes are a good step to a stable 1.3 version. Keep up reporting problems and new ideas.
Download: http://www.nagvis.org/downloads
Changelog: http://www.nagvis.org/docs/1.3/changelog
New NagVis Homepage released
I'm happy to present you the new website of the NagVis project. The time had come to put the old design aside and give a fresh new design to the NagVis.org. That's it.
It took some time to migrate the contents of the page but I think it was not for nothing. In the next days we will change some graphical things like the new logo in NagVis to get something like a corporate design.
At this place: Thanks to Karolina Kalisz for the beautiful new logo.
It took some time to migrate the contents of the page but I think it was not for nothing. In the next days we will change some graphical things like the new logo in NagVis to get something like a corporate design.
At this place: Thanks to Karolina Kalisz for the beautiful new logo.
