Downtime and host not in configuration.

[Garrett, Matt M SITI-ITDIEEE]

Folks

Sorry if this sounds real stupid.

One of the admin guy's was trying to add downtime via the web pages.
All was going fine , until he tried to enter downtime for a host that did not exist in the nagios config files.

The error message was
"Sorry, but you are not authorized to commit the specified command. 
Read the section of the documentation that deals with authentication and authorization in the CGIs for more information.

Return from whence you came 
"

While technically correct , in that he was not authorized to do the command , because the host was not in the config.
Is there any way to make nagios , give a better error message , like check if the host is in the config files and if not generate a suitable error.

Just a idea.

Matt



Matthew Garrett
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