Remove service and host commands from user interface.

[Jamie Baddeley]

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 19:25, jpttdi wrote:
"..Feel free to tell me "you should buy a real tool"... if there's no other 
solution..."

Umm. This statement makes no sense to me.

In fact I am not sure if a statement like this belongs here. At all.

Nagios is a *real* tool. 

And since when does buying something make it real? I've bought software in 
the past that was a complete waste of money. I've also wasted money on 
software that created more problems than it solved.

Back to school.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html
http://www.opensource.org/advocacy/recommended.php
http://www.perens.com/Articles/OSD.html

sigh.

jamie
(apologies if I'm over-reacting to something that I am passionate about)


On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 19:25, jpttdi wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Can someone help me ???
>
> I would like to set up an user account which cannot access services or
> hosts commands but which can be managed like every other users account (be
> a contact for some hostgroups, receive notifications ...)
>
> I've never seen a monitoring tool which allow any operator to disable
> services or hosts checks, does nagios assume that every user is a system
> administrator ?
>
> Feel free to tell me "you should buy a real tool"... if there's no other
> solution...
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jpt.
>
>
>
>
> jpttdi <jpttdi at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Brad,
>
> I have created an user account which is not a nagios contact but which is
> listed in the authorized_for_all_hosts/service directive in cgi.cfg.
>
> Yes, it works by this way, but this setting comes with other problems:
>
> -This account can see all the hosts and services set up in nagios , i want
> them to see only a part of them (the production server for which nagios
> configuration is ok).
>
> -As they are not contacts for any hosts or services, they don't receive any
> notifications (email...), which is a problem for me.
>
> If someone have another workaround...
>
>
> Thanks,
> Jpt.
>
>
>
> Brad Johnson <bjohnson at got.wedgie.org> wrote:
> Marc,
>
> Good point Marc - thanks for correcting me on that. That would explain why
> it isn't working in your situation, Jpt. You could always create some user
> called "observer" that wasn't a nagios contact. Then in the cgi.cfg file
> you could give observer access to host and service status info, but not
> commands.
>
> Might that work?
>
> - Brad
>
> On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Marc Powell wrote:
> > Respectfully, that's not the functionality of those options. The
> > default is for a user to be able to see and issue any commands against
> > any hosts and services for which they are listed as a contact. The
> > authorized_for_* commands grant additional permissions to specific
> > users for _all_ hosts and services monitored, not just for the ones
> > they are listed as a contact for.
> >
> > --
> > Marc
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Brad Johnson [mailto:bjohnson at got.wedgie.org]
> > > Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 9:59 AM
> > > To: jpttdi
> > > Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > >
> > > Can't you just use the authorized_for_all_host_commands and
> > > authorized_for_all_service_commands variables in cgi.cfg? If you don't
> > > want your user to be able to issue commands, just make sure the
> > > account's username isn't listed in those variables. Users will still be
> > > able to see the commands, even issue them. But as soon as they submit a
> > > command for processing, nagios will ignore it and give them an error
> > > message unless the username is listed in those variables.
> > >
> > > I think that should accomplish what you're looking for. Hope it helps.
> > >
> > > - Brad
> > >
> > > On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, [iso-8859-1] jpttdi wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I would like to know if it's possible to hide the hosts and services
> > >
> > > commands in the user interface for particular user.
> > >
> > > > I have set up an account for monitoring users, and i don't want them
> > > > to
> > >
> > > be able to disable checks of a service or to disable notifications (all
> > > that you can do with services and hosts commands)
> > >
> > > > I found in the manual a lot of options to grant additionnal rights to
> > >
> > > user but nothing about retrieving the right to disable notifications or
> > > checks !
> > >
> > > > Is there any way to do that ?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > > > Jpt.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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