read-only nagios

[James Pratt]

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum [mailto:dit.dash at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 10:49 AM
>> To: nagios List
>> Subject: [Nagios-users] read-only nagios
>> 
>> We're looking for a mechanism to allow others access to our nagios
>> server for viewing only. The kicker is they want to be able to reach
it
>> without any htpasswd so multiple htpasswords and
>> authorization_for_system_commands is not an option.
>> 
>> I'm thinking the only practical method to accomplish this is to
>> somehow mirror the install elsewhere. One idea was a cronjob that
>> ran a wget hitting the status cgi and dumping it somewhere on the
>> same machine. This still tends to have authentication queries
>> embedded in it. Another option might be another install on the
>> same server, different port, no authentication and
>> perhaps rsync'ing data from the master.
>> 
>> Has anyone set up anything like this before?
>> 
>> TIA

Have you considered Nagios Looking Glass? Sounds like it may do the job,
but I've never used it myself -

http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Addons/Frontends-%28GUIs-and-CLIs%2
9/Web-Interfaces/Nagios-Looking-Glass/details

cheers,
jamie

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