Suggestion - Display the current time of the Nagios xi host

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Suggestion - Display the current time of the Nagios xi host

Post by Box293 »

Sometimes when I look at a service or host object it tells me when the next check is.

Without going to the console of the xi host how can I tell what is the current time of the xi host?

My suggestion is to put the current time of the xi host somewhere in the top or bottom status bar.

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Re: Suggestion - Display the current time of the Nagios xi h

Post by mguthrie »

This wouldn't be terribly difficult to add. We do put a "last updated" string of text below each dashlet, but adding a server clock wouldn't be too big of a deal. I guess then the question would be, do we display the client's time, or the server's time if they're in different timezones? ; )
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Re: Suggestion - Display the current time of the Nagios xi h

Post by Box293 »

How about both, they are just two lines of text, they don't need to be very big?
Or perhaps a user by user option of also showing the client time, otherwise it just shows the server time.

Nagios xi Server Time: yyy
Your Client Time: xxx
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