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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Folks</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Sorry if this sounds real stupid.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">One of the admin guy's was trying to add downtime via the web pages.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">All was going fine , until he tried to enter downtime for a host that did not exist in the nagios config files.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The error message was</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">"Sorry, but you are not authorized to commit the specified command. </FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Read the section of the documentation that deals with authentication and authorization in the CGIs for more information.<BR>
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<U></U></FONT><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">Return from whence you came </FONT></U>
<BR><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">"</FONT></U>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">While technically correct , in that he was not authorized to do the command , because the host was not in the config.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Is there any way to make nagios , give a better error message , like check if the host is in the config files and if not generate a suitable error.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Just a idea.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Matt</FONT>
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