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diff --git a/doc/10-User-Guide.md b/doc/10-User-Guide.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..29d7917 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/10-User-Guide.md @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +User Guide +========== + +This guide wants to help you understand the basic usage of the module. +And how to access its data quickly. + +To understand the status behavior, see the [chapter about behavior](02-Behavior.md). + +## Finding problems + +Unhandled problems can be identified based on color saturation of the tiles. + +In addition counters show you how many states of what kind lay below. + +![Unhandled colors](screenshots/colors-unhandled.png) + +![Handled colors](screenshots/colors-handled.png) + +## Drilling down + +When you click on tiles in the topmost tile view, you drill down into a +tree view of that tile. + +The tree view is collapsing everything that is in an OK state. So you the +problems first. + +![](screenshots/tiles-tree-problems.png) + +In this view everything can be expanded via the arrow handle or a click +on the title area. + +Deeper branches can be opened in a new view by clicking on the title text, but +this is only needed to filter the shown data. + +Every Icinga status object, a host, service or hostgroup is a single tile +here. + +Counters are meant to give you an indication about how many problems, or +even objects are there. + +## Viewing Icinga details + +By clicking on an Icinga tile you get dropped into the Monitoring module, +which allows you to see all details and interact with the object (e.g. for +acknowledging the problem). + +Clicking on a service ![tile](screenshots/tile-service.png) will bring you +service detail view, same goes for hosts. + +![](screenshots/tree-service.png) + +The hostgroup ![tile](screenshots/tile-hostgroup.png) gives 2 options, +default will take you to a service overview for that hostgroup, sorted by problems. + +While clicking on the `X hosts` link in the tile brings you an overview +over hosts in that group. + +![](screenshots/tree-hostgroup.png) + +## Note about caching + +Please be aware that the data display in Top Level View is cached, for 60 +seconds by default. + +Latest state changes will only be reflected after that caching time. |