Widgets
Widgets are used to give the user a ability to personalize the Tactical Overview display status data to their needs.
The first thing you will see when you login to op5 Monitor is the Tactical overview and it looks like this:
In the Tactical Overview you may:
•move around the widgets to different places
•close the widgets
•set individual refresh time for each widget
•collapse and expand all individual widgets.
•create another instance of the widget
•scale the widgets over multiple columns
Note: All changes you make with the widgets are saved per user.
Widget list
op5 Monitor comes with a number of available widgets used to display data in Tactical Overview:
•Unacknowledged Service Problems
•Scheduled Downtime
•Acknowledged Service Problems
•Nagvis
•Disabled Checks
•Services
•Host Performance
•Merlin Node Status
•Acknowledged Problems
•Monitoring Performance
•Hosts
•Network Health
•Monitoring Features
•Unhandled Problems
•Business Processes
•Network Outages
•Geomap
Beside this wide range of widgets you can find additional widgets on www.op5.org, or create a own widget that fits your needs. This is described in“op5 Monitor Administrators Manual”.
Widget parts
Below you see an example of what a widget can look like:
The following table describes the parts of a widget shown in the picture above.
Nr | Description |
1 | Widget header |
2 | Copy Widget |
3 | Collapse and Expand icon |
4 | Widget settings icon |
5 | Widget content |
6 | Hide widget |
Renaming the widget header
The widget header displays the name of the widget.
To change the name in the widget header
1 Double click on the name in the widget header.
2 Type the new name in the text field.

3 Click OK to save the new name.
Collapse and expand
If you want to hide the content of a widget but still keep it on the
Tactical overview page just click on the
Collapse icon.

To show the widget again
Click on the Expand icon.
Widget settings
In this version of op5 Monitor the only setting you can change on a widget is refresh time
To set the refresh time on an individual widget follow the instructions below:
1 Click
Widget settings icon

2 Move the slider to increase or decrease the refresh time.

Extended widget settings
As described in “
Multiple instances on page 41” it is possible to create multiple copies of a widget.
This can be useful with some of the widgets we ship with op5 Monitor such as “Unacknowledged Service problems”. This widget displays the content of “Unhandled Problems” as default, but can be configured to use filters to display status information from servicegroups, and it is also possible to filter on the following statuses:
•Warning
•Critical
•Unknown
•Hard
•Backlog
Besides the standard Status filters: “Warning, Critical, Unknown”, Hard and Backlog are present.
With “Hard” you can select to only filter on HARD status and discard all SOFT states. This is the default setting when op5 Monitor sends notifications.
Backlog is a little more complicated. This setting can be useful if Tactical overview is displayed on a screen as a NOC-dashboard to monitor the status of hosts and services.
When the Backlog setting is used the widget will display all the problems that have been reported since your last login, even if these problems has been resolved.
To remove a problem when the backlog setting is activated you must either acknowledge the problem, or click the “X” button to remove it form the list.
Note: The backlog setting is global and affects all users
In the following example we will choose to display all the critical problems in HARD-state from the servicegroup “Web Services”:
1 Click settings button

and select a servicegroup:

2 Select the servicegroup you want to monitor with the widget:

3 When you have applied your settings a notification will be displayed in the top right corner showing that the settings are saved.

4 The widget displays the current CRITICAL services for the selected servicegroup.

Closing widgets 1
You may close one or more widgets from the Tactical overview.
Just click on the
Close widget icon to close the widget completely from the Tactical overview.

Closing widgets 2
Another way to close the widgets from the Tactical overview is to click on the Page settings icon.
And then you just uncheck the widget you want to hide from the list.
Note: The widget will only be visually removed from the Tactical overview. It will not be removed from the software. See
Moving widgets on page 42 about how to show the widget again.
Multiple instances
It is possible to create multiple instances of a widgets. This can be useful to display different datasources in widgets, such as status of a servicegroup or critical unacknowledged problems.
To create another instance of a widget: Click the copy button on a widget

.
This will create an identical copy of the widget.
Moving widgets
You may move around the widgets shown in the Tactical overview as you like.
To move a widget from one section an other
1 Grab, by clicking on the top bar and holding down the mouse button, the widget and move it to the section you like to place it in.
2 When you hover a section where you can drop the widget, a gray area will show where the widget will be placed:

Restoring to factory settings
To restore the Tactical overview to factory (default) settings
1 Click
Widget settings icon.

2 Click on the Restore to factory settings button and all widgets will
•been placed back to their original places
•got their default refresh time set
•been made visible again
•been expanded.
Create you own widgets
You may build your own widgets but this is not a subject for this user manual.
You can read more about how to build your own widget in the op5 Monitor Administrator manual.