Scheduling Downtime Not Authorized?

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Hari Sekhon
> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 12:21 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Scheduling Downtime Not Authorized?
> 
> I'm really pleased with my nagios 1.4.1 installation so far, I have it
> monitoring loads of servers, but now I feel like expanding beyond the
> basics and am trying to schedule downtime for a couple of hosts since
> they are down and will be for some time.
> 
> However I get the following error:
> 
> 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.
> 
> I'm logged in as nagiosadmin and have the following lines in
nagios.cfg
> 
> check_external_commands=1
> command_check_interval=-1
> command_file=/var/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd
> 
> ll /var/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd
> prw-rw---- 1 nagios apache 0 Jul 20 18:12 /var/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd|
> 
> 
> In cgi.cfg I have:
> 
> use_authentication=1
> authorized_for_system_information=nagiosadmin
> authorized_for_configuration_information=nagiosadmin
> authorized_for_system_commands=nagiosadmin
> authorized_for_all_services=nagiosadmin
> authorized_for_all_hosts=nagiosadmin
> authorized_for_all_service_commands=nagiosadmin
> authorized_for_all_host_commands=nagiosadmin
> 
> I restarted nagios with those settings but it still won't let me
> schedule downtime. Does anybody know why?

In the upper left status box on every page does it show you 'Logged in
as nagiosadmin'? If not, verify your .htaccess configuration in your
nagios sbin directory.

--
Marc

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