Balbec

Project Notes

Balbec is a visualization addon for nagios. It displays host and service info either in html for the enduser or in xml for further processing. As Balbec uses nagios hostgroups it's not necessary to maintain a complex seperate configuration.

Notes:

v1.4

Added mk livestatus as backend option (http://mathias-kettner.de/checkmk_livestatus.html). Check README for notes on using it.

v1.3

As an alternative to an Apache/WSGI setup, the application is able to run as standalone server now.

To allow more complex configurations, the configuration file syntax has been modified. Old configuration files are still supported, and can be converted to the new syntax using an included script.

Support for Nagios servicegroups has been added.

v1.2

When using the file backend, the parsing in the previous release was quite slow when the configuration included many hosts & services. This has been fixed. A configuration with several hundred hosts can be handled within a few ms on a slow cpu. Thus the file backend is at least on par with the mysql backend speedwise.

v1.1

Does not depend on a ndo/mysql setup anymore. Instead you can choose to parse the nagios object & status files.