Hostgroups: if not contact for one host, none are available

[Rutger Blom]

I find this very irritating too. It doesn't make sense either.

Rutger

2011/2/17 Yueh-Hung Liu <yuehung.liu at gmail.com>:
> this isn't a bug.
> by reviewing the source codes, you can find that Nagios(more
> precisely, the CGIs) just do this way.
> i have no clue why Nagios won't show "partial" hostgroups if one has
> no access to all host members.
> maybe for performance issue?
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 2:44 AM, C. Bensend <benny at bennyvision.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hey folks,
>>
>>   This has bitten me a few times now, so I figured I'd better report
>> it...
>>
>>   If I have hostgroup "bob":
>>
>> host1
>> host2
>> host3
>> host4
>> host5
>>
>> and contact "frank" is a contact for hosts 1, 2, 3, and 4 (but NOT
>> 5), frank will not be able to view the *hostgroup*.  It gives the
>> usual "It appears you do not have permissions ..." error.
>>
>>   *Surely* this can't be intentional, can it?  Why the heck would
>> you _want_ that behavior?  I would expect it to display the hosts
>> in the group (viewing a host you're a contact for will show all
>> services, even if you're not a contact for all), or at worst just
>> the members of the group the user is a contact for, but not deny
>> access to the entire hostgroup.
>>
>>   In my environment, I have accidentally added a host to the
>> wrong hostgroup.  When I do this and the users of the hostgroup
>> aren't contacts for this new one that I misplaced, the users lose
>> access to the entire hostgroup.
>>
>>   Am I being dense, or is this a bug?  3.2.3 on RHEL 5.5, BTW.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Benny
>>
>>
>> --
>> "Hairy ape nads."        -- Colleen, playing Neverwinter Nights
>>
>>
>>
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