Create a visual screen with monitoring details
One of the visualization options offered by Pandora FMS are the Visual Consoles. The Visual Console allows to represent the monitoring information in real time in a completely graphical way. In this example of Visual Console we are going to create an example of a network distributed all over the world and we will see how by clicking on the node that appears over Spain, we can see another map of Spain with other elements of the Spanish installation.
See also: "Creating visual consoles in Pandora FMS (video)": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIdsDbfBX5c
The power of the maps is that it allows to "summarize" the state of a child map in the visualization of the parent map; that is to say, if any of the elements visualized in the map of Spain is put in critical state, the icon that represents Spain will be red. This allows very customized hierarchies to be established when displaying information. Maps can contain status information of groups, agents, modules. In addition, graphs and data (numeric or text) can be included, as well as text labels and icons.
Creation of map 1 (Parent)
On this first map, the status of several agents distributed on a world map is added. This can be done manually, one by one, or through the Wizard. To facilitate the creation of the same we are going to use the Wizard in the example.
The first thing we have to do is to create a new map, which we will call World Map. Go to Operation → Topology maps → Visual Consoles and click Create map.
Once created we click on the Wizard of elements:
In the Wizard select the type of element, in this example Static Graph, the image to use, if you want to use one ítem per agent or per module (in this case per agent), and select the agents to add within the list that appears.
Click on the add button (Add) and all the created elements will appear on the map:
Move all the elements until you have them positioned on the map, by clicking and holding while dragging it over the map.
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Creation of map 2 (Child map)
In the second map you will create an element indicating the status of one of the main agents, attached to it all the given modules. You will visualize in this map also a graphic of the FreeRAM module of the same agent.
The first step is to create the new map as you did in the previous step:
Once created, add the element showing the agent status in the Static Graph section:
Also create the graphic with the attached configuration by clicking on the graphics icon, adding the agent and module from which the graphic is to be mirrored.
Now that you have created the main element of the map, you must create a new element for each of the modules that exist in the agent. To do this, use the Wizard making its configuration as you see in the attached screenshot. Select Static Graph of the agent and the modules that are indicated. We place as label the name of the module and assign to this one a parent previously created in the Visual Map, in this case the previous element added.
After creating all these elements, they will appear attached to the main element and you can move them by dragging them directly with the mouse in the desired position.
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Linking of both maps
In the previous steps we created the two maps. In this step indicate how to click on the element located on Spain on the map World Map, opens directly the map Spain Map.
To do so, open the map World Map, in edit mode, by double-clicking on the item 192.168.70.70. The element editing will open, click on advanced options and in the option Linked Map, select Spain Map. Update the item (button Update).
Back on the map view World Map, click on the item above Spain and the map of Spain will open directly. If only one item on the map of Spain is red, the icon representing Spain on the parent map will also be red.