3.3 Overview of the Web Interface

If you call the URL http://nagios-server/nagios in the browser when the Nagios daemon is running, you will be taken to the welcome screen shown in Figure 3-1.

The start screen

Figure 3-1. The start screen

The so-called "tactical overview" (Tactical Overview), which can be reached via the first monitoring link in the left menu bar, is shown in Figure 3-2. It summarizes the status of all tested systems.

Considerably more interesting in practice, however, is the display of the menu item Service Problems (Figure 3-3). It documents the services that are currently causing problems, those that are not in the OK status, in the very sense for ...

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