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Jerry_Wiltse's avatar
Jerry_Wiltse
11 years ago

Map Features - Widget and ''All Alerts on Map'' Functionality

Here\'s a similar Map-related request which I believe this would be RELATIVELY easy to implement for the dev team because it would just require a modification of existing tools and pages. I also believe it would be broadly applicable and useful for MANY customers, and not require a lot of new administrative overhead to actually use.

Create a view (perhaps a dashboard) that shows ALL alerts on the map together. Of course, often times multiple hosts have alerts in a single location, resulting in a single PIN, so here you might want to render that pin with a label that indicates that shows \'\'Total Alerts by Severity\'\' beside each PIN. You could also colorize the PINS. All of this is possible with the google maps API, and a bit of new code on the placement of pins.

Also, I think maps make sense as a native part of the dashboards. Consider creating a new \'\'Map Widget\'\' which offers the features as shown above.

Just my thoughts!

  • Annie_Dunham's avatar
    Annie_Dunham
    Former Employee
    11 years ago

    Some great ideas that well keep in mind as we enhance the map widget in the future. In the meantime, we do have a map widget you can easily add to any dashboard. It uses the location property from your hosts, and will display a color coded representation of your host alert status.

  • Jerry_Wiltse's avatar
    Jerry_Wiltse
    11 years ago

    Wow, Indeed with Annies help I added the location properties to my sites, created a dashboard with just he map widget, and got a color-coded map with statuses. VERY nice, virtually exactly what I was envisioning. I get a bunch of errors Missing address every time I load the dashboard, but I can supress them all after the first one with a checkbox. However, still extremely troublesome on the refresh. Ill opena ticket for that one. Dont know how I missed that widget, I swear I looked!rnAwesome, thanks!

  • Steve_Slaviero's avatar
    Steve_Slaviero
    10 years ago

    We used to have something like this on our old on-premise solution, it was good to ID what/where very quickly with a RAG status on a map.rnI would really like only alerts show on the map.