Access group of hosts per user

[Robert Snyder]

On Fri, Jun 23, 2006, David Latorre wrote:

>Hello.
>
>We are starting using Nagios and it looks great but we are wondering if 
>there is any way to have users access only to a determined group of 
>hosts/services, instead of the whole.

You can configure authorization/authentication, as Marc notes in his post. 

Another approach, that I am in the middle of setting up, is the Nagios
sidebar add-on that is outlined on Mark Duling's "Monitoring Network
Services with Nagios and Mac OS X" site. While Mark's site focuses on
getting Nagios working on a Mac, the sidebar tool is cross platform. 

If you go to <http://homepage.mac.com/duling/halfdozen/Nagios-Howto-
p2.html> and scroll down about 2/3 of the way, you will find a section
called "Display Hosts by Hostgroup" that include links to the script and
configuration files you will need to make this work. 

Here is Mark's description of the add-on:

"If you prefer to display hosts organized by a logical grouping, there
is an add-on to do just that.  The nagside add-on organizes your hosts
by higher level groups called domains in the Nagios sidebar (see this
example <http://chet.crashed.net/nagside.jpg>).  This addition does not
modify the Nagios object group configuration in any way; it is "merely"
for visual elegance and efficiency."

Once the scripts are in place, you edit /opt/local/sbin/nagios/side.pl
to set up the domains and then which domains, which users can see. The
benefit of this approach is that you can separate being a contact for
Host/Service from which hosts you can see. You can also group hosts in
an order that makes sense to you. 

As always, your milage may very. I am recovering from some surgery, and
have not had a chance to put this into practice. Perhaps someone on the
list knows a reason not to use this approach. 

If you do end up using it, please let me know how it works out for you.

Robert 


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