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Introduction

The Checkmk GUI can be customized easily by each user to fit their personal needs. Here are some examples:

• The start page
• The number of columns
• The row limit
• The Sidebar snapins
• The time format

How to set Defaults?

It might be useful to define your own defaults for some of these settings so a new user doesn't have to change everything on his own.

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The views for which you already explicitly have set the Time stamp format will not be changed because the settings in your personal config files below ~/var/check_mk/web/<username> are overriding the default settings.

Example 2: Default Sidebar Snapins

In the case of the sidebar snapins, the file ~/lib/python3/cmk/gui/plugins/config/base.py doesn't help us because the variable "sidebar" that is set there seems to have a new data structure. You can find out this structure by explicitly configuring your sidebar in the GUI and then checking out the file ~/var/check_mk/web/<your_username>/sidebar.mk. The structure you find there can be used in ~/local/share/check_mk/web/plugins/config/my_base.py:

# Newly create users should get these sidebar snapins:
sidebar = [
        {
            'snapin_type_id': 'tactical_overview',
            'visibility': 'open'
        },
        {
            'snapin_type_id': 'bookmarks',
            'visibility': 'open'
        },
        {
            'snapin_type_id': 'views',
            'visibility': 'closed'
        },
        {
            'snapin_type_id': 'search',
            'visibility': 'closed'
        },
        {
            'snapin_type_id': 'time',
            'visibility': 'closed'
        }
    ]

Recommendations

Sometimes it's hard to work out the possible values of a setting. In that case, applying the setting in the GUI and then doing a "grep" in ~/var/check_mk/web might be helpful:

OMD[mysite]:~$ grep -r ts_format ~/var/check_mk/web/
/omd/sites/mysite/var/check_mk/web/cmkadmin/viewoptions.mk:{'svcproblems': {'ts_date': '%Y-%m-%d', 'ts_format': 'abs'}}

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