user groups for cgi's

[Chuck Pierce]

You know, the more I look at it the more that I think you are right...  I
can probably do everything that I am after with trickery on the config
side...  I was thinking about doing something a little more sophisticated,
but I guess I can make my management software more sophisticated :)

Thanks - Chuck

Marc Powell <marc at ena.com> wrote: 
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nagios-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-devel-
>> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Chuck Pierce
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 10:56 AM
>> To: Nagios Developers List
>> Subject: Re: [Nagios-devel] user groups for cgi's
>> 
>> Sorry, I should have been a little more specific...  I am talking
>about
>> limiting to more than just the cgi.  I am talking about limiting
>access to
>> hosts within the cgi.
>> 
>> Example:
>> if using status.cgi?hostgroup=all you would only get a listing of the
>> actual
>> hosts that you have access to.
>
>Unless I'm still not understanding, that's exactly what authentication
>provides. We use it extensively, providing restricted views for 1175
>contacts. Nagios looks at the REMOTE_USER variable set by htaccess to
>determine who is logged in. Hosts and services are only shown that they
>are contacts for. For hostgroup views, I believe that you must have
>permission to see all hosts within a hostgroup to view the hostgroup.
>
>Try it and see. I feel confident it's what you're looking for.
>
>As far as not sending notifications, disable them with the following in
>your template or contact definition --
>
>    service_notification_period    none
>    host_notification_period       none
>
>--
>Marc 
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