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Erik Wegner edited this page Jan 14, 2018 · 6 revisions

How do I access the add-on configuration in Firefox?

  1. Click on the menu button to expand the menu panel.
  2. Click Add-ons. The Add-ons Manager page will open.
  3. Click on "Settings" for the imoin Add-on.

How do I access the add-on configuration in Chrome?

  1. Visit chrome://extensions in your browser
  2. Click "Options" for the imoin extension.

How do I configure the add-on?

You can configure multiple instances. All data is merged into a combined status.

Add an instance

There is always one instance. To add another one, click the Add button.

Select an instance

The drop down control lets you select the instance you want to configure.

Configure an instance

Label is the name to distinguish this instance from the others.

Version selects the way to gather the data. See below for details.

Url is the address to access the monitoring backend.

Timer period sets up the time between connections to the instance.

Username and Password are optional. Enter both settings if a login required.

Delete an instance

The Delete button removes the current instance from the list. The last instance cannot be removed.

Font size adjustment

This is a percentage to scale the text size. The default value is 100, which means no scaling.

Version and Url

CGI (Icinga 1.x)

For Icinga 1 backends.

The url may look like https://www.example.com/cgi-bin/. To check the url, append status.cgi and open it in the browser.

Icinga 2 API

For Icinga 2 with API enabled (setup instructions).

The url may look like https://www.example.com/api or https://icinga:5665, without a slash at the end. To test the correct value, copy the path to a browser address bar, add /v1/status and it should open the status response.

Nagios Core 4.0.7+

For Nagios Core instances from version 4.0.7 and later.

The url may look like https://www.example.com/. To check the url, append cgi-bin/status.cgi and open it in the browser.

Nagios HTML parsing

For Nagios 3 or Nagios 4.

The url may look like https://www.example.com/. To check the url, append cgi-bin/status.cgi and open it in the browser.