Introduction
About introduction
About introduction
Using this manual
About op5 Monitor
Backend
Introduction
Backend parts
Folders and files
Tweaks
About
Ramdisk
Enable ramdisk
Agents
Introduction
op5 NSClient++
Installing and configuring op5 NSClient++
Plugins used with op5 NSClient++
check_nt
check_nrpe
Configuration files
Changing the configuration
To change the configuration
NRPE
Installing NRPE
Configuring NRPE
Adding commands to NRPE
Plugins used with NRPE
Novell
Installing Novell MRTGEXT
More information
Windows SyslogAgent
Installation
Upgrading
Configuration
Configuring the elementary functions
Monitoring objects Configuration
Introduction
Workflow
The Basics
Start working
Submitting changes
Save the changes
Undo changes
Historical Configuration Changes
Filter config changes
Main Objects
Required directives
Hosts
Required directives
Services
Required directives
Contacts
Required directives
Local users
Required directives
Access rights in detail
Recommended settings
Time periods
A time period in detail
Commands
Directives
Plugins
Groups
Host groups
Services on Host groups
Nested host groups
Service groups
Contact groups
Permission to host and services
Using Templates
How they work
Managing Objects
Before you start
Add new
Configuration files
Help
Templates
Contacts
Adding a contact template
Adding a contact
Modify a contact
Delete a contact
Hosts
Adding a host with new host wizard
Adding hosts with network scan
Modifying a host
Deleting a host
Renaming a host
Network autoscan
Adding a new autoscan configuration
Adding a host to blacklist
The result
Services
Adding a service
Modifying a service
Test this service
Deleting a service
Scanning host for network services
Scanning a host for snmp interfaces
Scanning host for windows services
Scan for services using agent
Scan for service using WMI
Custom Variables
Creating a new custom variable
Example
Dynamic Button
Configuration
Escalations
Adding a host escalation
Modifying a host escalation
Deleting a host escalation
Access rights and contacts
Connecting access rights to contacts
Make things easy
Profiles
Creating a Profile
Using a Profile
Cloning objects
Cloning from an existing Host
Cloning services
Copy objects
Propagate settings
Bulk delete
Time Periods
Add a time period
Macros
Pre-defined macros
Custom macros
Writeprotected configuration files
Features not supported by configure
Plugins
Introduction
Paths and macros
Before you start
The plugin interface
Status output
Performance data
Return code
Adding your first plugin to op5 Monitor
Creating the plugin
Configuring op5 Monitor to use the plugin
Ccreating a more complex plugin
More Information
Widgets
Introduction
The widget basics
The widget rules
File structure
Widget Class
View file
Writing a simple widget
Creating the directory structure
Writing the widget file
Writing the view file
Multiple instances
Adding the widget to the widget table
Removing a widget
Viewing the widget
Take your widget a step further
Packaging your widget
Creating the Manifest.xml
Creating the widget package
Access widgets externally
Server side setup
External website setup
Widget Porting guide
Java script
View
Controller
Extra Settings
Multiple Instances
GUI Themes
Introduction
The files and folders
Make your own theme
Before you start
Install SASS
Creating your own skin
Compiling skins
Modify report skin
Changing what theme op5 Monitor use
Making changesi n the user interface
Changing the logo
Creating custom logo per login
Change the default font
User Menus
Customize user menus
Localization
Introduction
Downloading and starting the tools
Adding a new language
Changing basic language file settings
Applying the new language to the server
Graphs
Introduction
Graph web front end
Collections
About Collections
Creating a new collection
GUI selection
Regex selection
Viewing Collections
Combined Graphs
What is a combined graph?
Creating combined graphs
Viewing combined graphs
Graph templates
Changing Graph template
Graph prediction
Activate graph prediction
Business Process
Introduction
Business groups
About business services
Creating a new group
Creating a sub-element
Rules types
Worst state
Best state
Simple At least
At least
At most
Scores
Custom rules
Publish as a service
Reporting
Notifiactions
Iintroduction
How does notifications work
Notification filters
Notification commands
Notification macros
Notification e-mail sender
Notification skins
The content of a notification skin
Creating custom notification skins
Dial-up notification
Adding a dial up notification command
Configuring the contacts
SNMP trap notifications
Adding SNMP notification commands
Configuring the contacts
LDAP Integration
Introduction
Default
LDAP and Active Directory
Before we start
Prepare your domain
Connection parameters
Example configuration for Active Directory
Test your connection
Apache
Authorization
Group rights
Expand/Contract authorization categories
Select/Deselect all rights
Lookup user
Filter groups
Add, delete, rename groups
Configuration files used by authorization
Authorization points
Backup
Configuration backup tool
Backup/Restore actions
Backing up the configuration
Restoring a configuration backup
op5-backup
About
Configuration
Create a backup
Creating a full backup
Creating a custom backup
Creating a change arch backup
Restoring a backup
Upgrade
Iintroduction
Upgrading with yum
Upgrading with tar.gz files
Scalable Monitoring
Distributed Monitoring
Introduction
Before we start
The Configuration
Setting up the new distributed monitoring solution
Adding a new poller
Adding a new host group to a poller
Removing a poller
Master takeover
File synchronization
Folder synchronization
Access right synchronization
One way connections
Recovery
More information
Load balanced monitoring
Load balanced monitoring
Before we start
The Configuration
Setting up the load balanced solution
Adding a new peer
Removing a peer
File synchronization
Folder synchronization
More information
Merlin
About
Merlin components
merlin-mod
merlind
merlin database
Illustration
The mon command
About
The commands
Start
Stop
Restart
Ascii
Check
db
ecmd
Log
Node
oconf
SSHKey
Sysconf
Test
VRRP
About
Setup
Activate VRRP
op5 Monitor API and CLI
Introduction
GUI API
About
Example
REST and LDAP
GUI API
Configure API
op5 Monitor Configuration CLI
To execute the op5 Monitor CLI
Wiki
Introduction
Managing wiki pages
Create a wiki page
Deleting a wiki page
Third party configuration import
Introduction
Pre-requirements
Limitations
Import configuration
Preparing nagios configuration
Import nagios configuration
1.0.0
Third party configuration import