Nagios 'share/side.html' Replacement
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Notes:

      My company's installation of Nagios monitors over 500 hosts and 2500
   services.  As anyone with a large Nagios deployment knows, it becomes a
   chore to try and locate a specific hostgroup or host in the web interface.

      I created this replacement for the side frame to display hostgroups in a
   pleasing fashion, and incorporated a simple search box if you know the
   host's name.

      I also created a script that allows users to toggle themselves between
   authorized_for_all_(services|hosts).  This allows all users to see blocking
   outages when they want to, but keeps their display from being cluttered
   when they don't.

Installation:

   Assuming your Nagios is installed in /usr/local/nagios:

      1) Open side.pl in you favorite editor to configure it.
      2) Copy side.pl to /usr/local/nagios/sbin.
      3) Copy side.html & index.html to /usr/local/nagios/share.
      4) Copy *.gif to /usr/local/nagios/share/images.
      5) Copy search.pl to /usr/local/nagios/sbin.
      6) If your Nagios is installed somewhere other than /usr/local/nagios.
         *) Open toggle.pl and update the path on line 27.
      7) Copy toggle.pl to /usr/local/nagios/sbin.
      8) Make /usr/local/nagios/etc/cgi.cfg the same as the permissions for
         /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd.

         More specifically, allow the webserver user read/write access to it.

Credits:

   Chet Luther <chet@crashed.net>