Segregation of networks

[Robert Nelson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Powell [mailto:marc at ena.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 3:17 PM
> To: Robert Nelson; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Segregation of networks
> 
> 
> Robert Nelson <mailto:rnelson at windchannel.com> wrote:
> 
> > In our case, we have two different internal divisions - we're a 
> > wireless company that does Fixed Wireless Broadband in 
> Raleigh, NC and 
> > also hotel wi-fi installs. The FWB has an order of magnitude more 
> > devices, but there are more hostgroups for hotels. When you use 
> > grouplist.cgi, this makes for a HUGE link list on the left 
> hand pane. 
> > I know I could put this on two servers, but that would take another 
> > monitoring server and require a second host to maintain config
> > files/logins on.    
> >
> > Of course, a real tricky question is, is there a way to 
> present each 
> > section as their own web page, AND have an overall summary 
> screen for 
> > the guy who's on-call? :)
> 
> This is exactly what CGI authentication is for. When enabled, 
> contacts can only see hosts, hostgroups, and services that 
> they are contacts for. Create a contactgroup for the FWB 
> people, a contactgroup for the hotel people and make them 
> contacts for their respective hosts and services. The on-call 
> guy should be a member of both contactgroups.

Yes, except most add-ons like grouplist.cgi ignore authentication and
create the same left-hand menu for every user. Now, not only are all the
groups still listed there, but the majority of them appear blank to the
user.

I've got the authentication in place, I've even hacked a few HTML pages
together so that a specific user can only see their authorized hosts,
but I do that by taking away the menu. I'd basically like to make two
versions of the Nagios Web UI but still maintained by one set of config
files on the backend. Does that make any sense?

Rob Nelson
Network Engineer
Windchannel Communications
919-538-6326 


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