Viewing rights

[Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]]

This is on my wish list as well.

Example:

Granting the DBAs the ability to see the Oracle-related services we've
defined and the ability to acknowledge, schedule downtime, etc.  This much
they can do today.

However, they don't see any hosts, so various cgi's simply aren't an option
for them.  If I add them to the host, suddenly they have the power to
acknowledge host problems, schedule downtime, etc.  Not a desireable
feature.

Instead, it would be preferable if the DBAs could see host-related info
(like a guest would), but have no power to do anything about the hosts (like
a guest would).  This ability can be kludged today by editing the cgi.cfg
file and adding the individual contacts.  Doable, yes.  Preferable, not
really.  It's a significant deviation from using contact groups.

jc


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip Brown [mailto:nagios at bolthole.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 2:20 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Viewing rights
> 
> 
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:11:58AM -0000, Phil Costelloe wrote:
> > ..
> > If you don't use authentication, anybody can see anything. 
> If you do use
> > authentication, you can see the hosts for which you are a 
> contact (so
> > the webserver authentication names need to match the Nagios contact
> > names). In addition, you can give permission to specific 
> users to view
> > all hosts or all services etc. in cgi.cfg.
> 
> As I understand things, if someone is a contact for a 
> service, they are
> supposed to have permission to modify the service (or host).
> 
> So, unless you want to give someone "ALL" perms, you have a 
> choice of them
> having
> 
> a) visibility, notification, AND control of a service
> b) nothing
> 
> it would be really nice to have some kind of middle ground here.
> 
> 
> For example, having a specific user's userid, being able to 
> adjust a service on a particular host, but having view-only access
> to the host itself.
> 
> 
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