The new generation GUI in op5 Monitor is made to be as simple as possible to use. Even if the GUI has a new look and feel it works in many ways as the old one. You will recognize most of the features from the CGIs.A manual is great but many times you only need to get a fast answer about a special part of op5 Monitor.
1 Click the help icon
This gives you a small frame with the help text included in.First of all you need to login before you can start use op5 Monitor. To login to the op5 Monitor GUI:
1 Point your browser to the portal page of your op5 Monitor server
( https://youserver/ )
4 Click LoginTo logout from op5 Monitor just click Log out in the upper rightThe navigation in op5 Monitor is simple and in many ways the same as in the old CGI GUI. But there are a couple of things that is new like:If you do not want to see the whole main menu you can easily hide parts of it by clicking on the section header of the section you want to hide.Let's say you want to hide the Reports section of the menu. Then you should click on Reports like in the picture below:Sometimes your browser is unable to show the complete main menu.You can scroll the main menu by using the scroll bar just to the right of the menu, shown in the picture below:In many views in op5 Monitor you can hide the page header. This will give you a bit more space to show the ''important`` things on the page.
Note: This is not persistent. This means that if you navigate away from the current view and back again the header is visible again.If you take the Unhandled problems as an example the normal page header looks like the picture below. Under the page header the list of monitored objects is shown.It is possible to hide the main menu and only show the icons instead of the icons plus the captions.You might not want to have those pop ups every time you hover with the mouse over one of the graph or comment icons. Then you can change that behaviour in My account.
2 Set either a delay or turn the pop ups of completely. The delay time is in ms.
To quickly show the host address of a host, hold the mouse on the host. A pop-up will appear with the host address.The keyboard commands are shortcuts to some of the features in the op5 Monitor GUI. The following keyboards commands are available:
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Pause or activate the refresh of the current view in the GUI. Takes you to the left in a view that have more than one page. Takes you to the right in a view that have more than one page.By default the keyboard commands are disabled. To enable the keyboard commands and change their settings take a look at Keyboard commands used in the GUI on page 123.In almost every view in the monitoring section you may perform commands on the objects displayed in the view. This is very useful if you for instance have a bigger problem with one or many services you may then acknowledge all of them at once.
1 Open up Unhandled problems view.
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5 This menu will only appear if you are ‘Authorized for system commands’ under Access Rights in the configuration.Information about the different actions can be found in the Monitoring chapter, About Monitoring on page 31
Note: The search is case insensitive.
The result is limited to maximum 10 result rows per object type.
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2 While you are typing your search string op5 Monitor will show you a list of hosts matching the string.
3 If you click on a host in the drop down list you will be redirected to the Service Status Details For Host page for the host you clicked on. The same happens if the search found only one object matching your search string.op5 Monitor will now search for hosts, services, service groups, host groups and notes matching the search string you entered.
Search for Status information using the output from the latest service / host check. The AND operator is used to filter records based on more than one condition The OR operator is used to filter records based on more than one condition
Note: Remember to not use any space between the : and the search stringIn this example we want to find all services called either ping or http running on hosts called something like win or linux.
Example 3 To search for hosts and services having a certain string in their status output you shall write a query like this:
Example 4 To get a complete list of all hosts, services, host groups and service groups you only need to write a query like this:The search function can search on notes that is set in the configuration on both in hosts and services.By default the search function will not search in notes. To enable this go to ‘My Account’ in the menuTo change the limitation you only need to add limit with the number of lines to your query like this:No matter if you use the simple or the advanced way to do your search you will end up with the same type of result list.As you can see in the search result example below the search will be shown with one part for each type of object.Every view is automatically refreshed after a certain time. You can easily pause or edit the global refresh time in the GUI.The Global refresh time is valid for all views that uses auto refresh. So it does not matter in what view you are pausing or editing.
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1 Once you have edited the Global refresh time a little notice will show up in the GUI. It tells you that the new Global refresh time is saved and look like the picture below.Widgets are used to give the user a ability to personalize the Tactical Overview display status data for their needs.The first thing you will see when you login to op5 Monitor is the Tactical overview and it looks like this:op5 Monitor comes with a number of availible widgets used to display data in Tactical Overview: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 Administratiors Manual”.
3 Click OK to save the new name.If you like to hide the content of a widget but still keep it on the Tactical overview page just click on the Collapse icon.Click on the Expand icon.
1 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: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 has 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.In the following example we will choose to display all the critical problems in HARD-state from the servicegroup “Web Services”:
3 When you have applied your settings a notification will be displayed in the top right corner showing that the settings are saved.Another way to hide the widgets from the Tactical overview is to click on the Page settings icon.
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 28 about how to show the widget again.It is possible to create multiple instances of a widgets, this can be useful to use to display different datasources in widgets, such as status of a servicegroup or critical unacknowledged problems.
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2 Click on the Restore to factory settings button and all widget haveYou can read more about how to build your own widget in the op5 Monitor Administrator manual.