4/25/2014 Adding ICONS to Nagios Map | ScottyP's Blog http://srparkin.wordpress.com/2011/10/18/adding-icons-to-nagios-map/ 1/4 S cottyP's Blog ScottyP's NMIT Course Blog Adding ICONS to Nagios Map By default the Nagios map looks confusing, having question marks everywhere doesn’t help. as an administrator you should be able to just look at the map and automatically know whats happening. icons can make things easier to understand. by default Nagios comes with some icons and they can do the trick but they are not all that appealing to the eye, so i made my own. the default icon set can be found in: /usr/local/nagios/share/images/icons/ Here is the icon set that I created for my network: The Cloud is for internet sources, the server is ESXi physical hosts, the penguin is for Linux servers, printer for printers, the next one is a router then switch and then a windows server. The icons must be 40 X 40 pixels as this is what Nagios uses Because I am using putty with an SSH connection to my server, I can use PSFTP to put the images on to the server, PSFTP is a free FTP client that comes with putty. this will upload the icons to the Nagios server. Open PSFTP Type: open 10.10.21.3 (this is the IP address of the Nagios server) enter username and password as requested. type: put Then in widows explore find the file you want to transfer and drag and drop into the CLI Once this is done move the .png images into the appropriate file location within the Nagios install
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4/25/2014 Adding ICONS to Nagios Map | ScottyP's Blog
By default the Nagios map looks confusing, having question marks everywhere doesn’t help. as anadministrator you should be able to just look at the map and automatically know whats happening.
icons can make things easier to understand. by default Nagios comes with some icons and they can dothe trick but they are not all that appealing to the eye, so i made my own. the default icon set can be
found in:
/usr/local/nagios/share/images/icons/
Here is the icon set that I created for my network:
The Cloud is for internet sources, the server is ESXi physical hosts, the penguin is for Linux servers,
printer for printers, the next one is a router then switch and then a windows server.
The icons must be 40 X 40 pixels as this is what Nagios uses
Because I am using putty with an SSH connection to my server, I can use PSFTP to put the images onto the server, PSFTP is a free FTP client that comes with putty. this will upload the icons to the Nagios
server.
Open PSFTP
Type:open 10.10.21.3 (this is the IP address of the Nagios server)
enter username and password as requested.
type:put
Then in widows explore find the file you want to transfer and drag and drop into the CLI
Once this is done move the .png images into the appropriate file location within the Nagios install