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[i-doit ] Your own reports on the dashboard

2016-12-23 16:12 by Martin Haubold

Every user in i-doit has the ability to configure their own dashboard. To allow this to happen, a number of pre-configured widgets are provided. Among other things, the "Report" widget can be displayed. This example embeds a report that provides information on the objects associated with the user ("Contact assignment" category), and which were last edited by another user. For this configuration, the user needs the "Create report" and "Configure your own dashboard" rights. First of all, a report needs to be created. The Report Manager is found in the menu below "Tools":

Next create a simple report that displays the following attributes of the objects:

Name
Object type
Last change by person
Last change (date)

The approach for creating a report is described very well in the i-doit Knowledge Base, and is not explained in detail at this point.

Figure 2: Configuration of the report in the Query Editor

In the "General" category conditions, the user's full name is entered for the "Last change by" attribute and linked to "is unequal to". After saving, the report can be run.

Now go to the Dashboard, and clicking on pencil icon below the username to open the Dashboard configuration.

Select "Report" in the dropdown and press the button to add. You can also use drag and drop to define the position of the report on the Dashboard. The widget appears on the Dashboard after pressing "Apply". The widget still does not have any content. When you hover the mouse pointer over the header of the report widget, you can select the desired report by clicking on the pencil icon. You can also define how many objects appear on one page of the widget's output. The results of this report appear on the Dashboard after pressing "Apply".

In the view window, you can click to sort objects by a respective column. By default, sorting is by the object name.

By Michael Rütten, (comments: 0)

29 Apr

SNAG-View Application Monitoring

With SNAG-View, application monitoring can be set up very easily and very comprehensively!

Using the ticket system Znuny as an example, we show you how deeply you can monitor an application.

By Michael Rütten, (comments: 0)

28 Nov

Edit LDAP-Filter-String in i-doit manually

If you do not wish to include all Active Directory users in i-doit, you can restrict said users via filters. Previously, the configuration of the LDAP filter could only be achieved by using the Filter Builder.

Starting from i-doit Version 31, the filter string can be edited directly.

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02 May

Own $USERX$ macros for SNAG-View 3

Additional placeholders for the path to plugins ($USERXXX$) can be integrated very easily in SNAG-View. The following steps are necessary for this:

A new <item> entry must be created in the "resource_cfg.xml".

Note: Be careful not to change or delete existing <item> entries.

Example:

Beispiel $User3$

We currently ship two predefined macros: "$USER1$ and $USER2$". After the change, the macro $USER3$ is available for the path /var/lib/nagios/libexec-customer2.

The script "/usr/bin/createNagiosCfg.sh" is then executed, so that the configuration is saved and saved in the resource.cfg.