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Configuration

Configuration
About Configuration
This chapter covers the following topics:
Introduction
The Configuration head line in op5 Monitor is all about configuring op5 Monitor. Everything from you own password to hosts, services, notification escalations and so on is done here.
The Configuration head line is divided into the following parts
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Configure, will be covered in the chapter op5 Monitor configuration tool on page 105.
 
View config
In many times you only need to view the configuration without changing it. Then you should use View config instead of the op5 Monitor configuration tool. This is a lot easier to get a more complete view of all objects of the same types.
Viewing config
Example 1
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Click View config in the main menu.

As default hosts are shown.
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Change Object type to host groups
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My account
My account contains a few settings, including the possibillity to change your password.
Here you may set
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how to display passive checks
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Pagination behaivor
Paginations are used in almost every view under the Monitoring section. You can set pagination
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Table 1
Sets the value is used to generate drop-down for nr of items per page to show.
The way passive checks are displayed
A service which is only recieving passive check results is normally displayed as inactive. This gives you an icon looking like this:
Here you may change how that service is displayed. To change this behaviour you only need to set
Show Passive as Active = On
Then the passive only checks will appear as they were active.
What skin to use in the GUI
In op5 Monitor you are able to create your own skin to use in the GUI. How to create your own skin is described in the op5 Monitor adminstrator manual.
Here you may chose what skin you like to use.
Keyboard commands used in the GUI
You may use your own chortcuts to your keyboard commands. You need to set one or more modifier key plus any other key.
Possible Modifier keys are
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Modifier keys should be entered in alphabetical order.
Add a combination of keys with a + sign between like
Alt+Shift-f
without any spaces. All keys are case insensitive.
Changing my account settings
To change my account settings
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Click My account.
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Click Save.
Change popup behavior
You can select to disable the graph popup when hovering the mouse over a graph icon. It is also possilbe to change the popup delay.
Status pages
Here you can select if you want to show the display name and notes on hosts and services in the GUI. If the search function should also search in the notes filed “show notes” must be enabled.
Set URL target
Select how you whant a URL to open. You can choose to open in a new window or in the same window.
Changing your password
To change your password
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Click Change password in the top right corner of the My account page
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Click Change password.
Next time you login you have to use the new password.
Backup / Restore
The op5 Monitor GUI has got a built-in backup feature. This is not supposed to be a replacement to op5-backup.
 
Backing up the configuration
To backup your op5 Monitor configuration
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Click Save your current op5 Monitor configuration.
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Backup/Restore actions
In the list of backups the second column is called ACTIONS. This is the functions you will find there, from the left to the right:
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Restoring a configuration backup
To restor a op5 Monitor configuration backup
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