navigatorMAX

Description

navigatorMAX creates navigation tiles from your Zabbix dashboards. Build one overview for operators, link directly to the right dashboard page and show host problem colours and counts before opening detail. Choose a paged button grid or a collapsible list.

FREE gives operators a dashboard navigator with a tile grid or list, direct page links, a shared appearance and live problem colours and counts for host dashboards.

PRO adds navigation by host groups and subgroups, template dashboards, host selection by tags, regular expressions and custom URLs. Individual tiles can have their own icon, colour and problem filter; shared presets make a setup easy to reuse.

The widget uses the current viewer’s Zabbix permissions. Sharing a dashboard does not grant access to its destination hosts, groups, items or other dashboards. Install the package on every frontend node in an HA setup; shared presets live in the Zabbix module configuration.

Zabbix 8.0 compatibility is currently tested on 8.0.0rc2. Global dashboards do not have a destination host: their default tile colour is an appearance setting, not a health check. PRO can use an explicit problem filter for those tiles.

Usage examples

Example 1 – Host dashboards and live problems (FREE)

Select Host dashboard and match technical host names or a * pattern, then load the selection. The FREE build below uses one shared icon and automatic per-host severity colours and counts. Each tile opens that host’s dashboard; its menu selects Overview or Details.

Example 2 – Sites and host-group problems (PRO)

Match a group hierarchy such as s4/000/network and enable Include subgroups when descendants should become separate tiles. No dashboard is required behind a group tile: it opens that group’s Problems view. * can also match slash characters, so it is not a one-level-only selector.

Example 3 – Open a dashboard page (FREE/PRO)

Use the page menu on a tile to open Overview, Details or Trends directly. Page navigation is shared by both editions. This PRO example also has explicit problem-filter colours, which require PRO for global dashboards.

Example 4 – A compact navigation tree (FREE/PRO)

Switch to List and group slash-separated dashboard names into a collapsible tree. List navigation is shared by both editions; the coloured markers/counts in this PRO example come from custom problem filters.

Example 5 – Icons and custom problem filters (PRO)

Give each tile a suitable icon and choose a fixed colour or a problem filter. Multiple host/group/trigger selectors and tags let a global dashboard tile represent the exact monitored scope its operators need.

Installation

Signed DEB and RPM packages are delivered through the initMAX repository. The Portal guided installer supplies the distribution-specific commands and fills in your PRO repository credentials after sign-in.

RHEL / Rocky / Alma

SUSE

Debian / Ubuntu

Prefer a ZIP archive for an offline or manual installation? Download FREE from the repository, or PRO from the Portal after signing in. The Portal installer provides the current installation and upgrade instructions.

Configuration

Add navigatorMAX to a dashboard, select sources, click Load selection and create tiles, arrange the tiles and Apply. Save the dashboard to persist the change. In FREE, PRO controls remain visible with a padlock.

Fields marked (PRO) require the PRO edition. Other settings are available in both editions.

General settings

Field	Description
Name	The widget title on the dashboard.
Refresh interval	How often problem states and counts refresh.
Presets	FREE includes a host dashboard starter. PRO adds more built-ins and shared presets.
Save as preset (PRO)	Save sources and appearance for reuse. Super administrators manage shared presets.

1. Select sources

Field	Description
Selection	Include adds matching sources; Exclude removes exceptions.
Source	FREE selects global and host dashboards. PRO also selects template dashboards and host groups.
Host selection	Select hosts by name in FREE. PRO also supports host groups and tags.
Name or pattern	Enter a name or a * pattern. Regular expressions prefixed with regex: require PRO.
Include subgroups (PRO)	Create separate tiles for the selected group’s descendants too.
Show disabled hosts	Include disabled hosts in the selection.
Limit	Maximum number of generated tiles, up to 1,000. A notice identifies a truncated selection.
Load selection and create tiles	Create tiles from the selection. Reloading preserves the order and settings of matching tiles.
Type of calculation (PRO)	In older saved configurations, combine conditions using Or, And, And/Or or a custom expression.
Expression (PRO)	The custom condition formula of an older configuration. Shown only when the saved selection uses it.

2. Appearance

Field	Description
View type	Buttons displays a tile grid; List displays a compact list.
Group by “/”	Build a collapsible list hierarchy from slash-separated names.
Columns	Number of grid columns.
Rows	Rows per page. The summary shows capacity, overflow and the resulting page count.
Labels	Show tile labels.
Icons	Show tile icons.
Descriptions	Show the additional text below each label.
Counts	Show problem counts by severity. Also available in FREE for host dashboards.

3. Arrange tiles

Find tiles, drag them into order or use the arrows. Edit opens the tile settings; Clone duplicates a tile and Remove deletes it from this widget. Add custom tile (PRO) adds an independent tile, such as a custom URL.

Display defaults

Field	Description
Font size	Shared font size. Auto fits text to the available space.
Icon size	Shared icon size in pixels.
Tile spacing	Space between tiles.
Corner radius	Tile corner rounding.
Default icon	A shared icon from the Zabbix image library.
Default tile colour	Fallback colour when neither a problem nor an individual tile setting overrides it.
Background colour	Background colour of the whole widget.
Remove background	Remove the widget background and border.

Problem display

Field	Description
Colour by host problems	Colour a tile from its destination host’s problems. Available in FREE and PRO.
Severities	Which severities contribute to colours and problem counts.
Include suppressed	Include suppressed problems too.
System severity colours	Open Zabbix’s global severity colour settings; changes affect the whole instance.

Tile editor

Field	Description
On click	Choose what opens on click. FREE supports global and host dashboards; other destinations require PRO.
Dashboard	The specific dashboard this tile opens.
Page	A page of the selected dashboard. The tile menu can expose its other pages too.
Label	A custom tile label instead of the source name.
Description	A short additional description. Supports expression macros with live item values.
Font size	The font size of this tile; leave empty to use the widget default.
Icon (PRO)	An icon assigned to this individual tile.
Tile colour (PRO)	Use widget defaults, a fixed colour or a custom problem filter.
Use destination host (PRO)	Use this tile’s destination host for its colour and counts.
Host groups (PRO)	Host groups included in the problem filter. Accepts multiple names or patterns.
Hosts (PRO)	Hosts included in the problem filter. Accepts multiple names or patterns.
Triggers (PRO)	Triggers included in the problem filter. Accepts multiple names or patterns.
Tags (PRO)	Narrow the filter using tags and their values.
Paint (PRO)	Use the highest severity colour, or a custom colour when a problem matches.
Problem counts (PRO)	Show counts for problems matching this tile’s custom filter.
Open in (PRO)	For a custom URL, choose the same window or a new tab.

Live values in descriptions

Descriptions use the native Zabbix expression-macro resolver. For example: Available disk space: {?last(/Zabbix server/navigatormax.demo.storage.free)}. Use an explicit technical host name and item key. The raw template remains saved; displayed values refresh under the viewer’s permissions. Missing or inaccessible values follow the installed Zabbix version’s native behaviour.

Permissions and unavailable data

Automatic host-state lookup is bounded at 10,000 matching problem events per refresh. If that limit is exceeded or the lookup fails, affected tiles show an unavailable state and a link to Problems; incomplete totals are not presented as complete. The source selection separately caps tiles at the configured Limit.

Where to get it?

Compare the editions and get navigatorMAX on the product page.