Nagios Interface

[Richard Luys]

On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 09:42:12 +0100, Ben Clewett <Ben at clewett.org.uk> wrote:

> Nice idea using wget :)
>
> You may wish to look at PerfParse some time.  The reports are parsed 
> into a relational database.  This makes them very fast, and also easy to 
> write your own API of you wish to read the data into your own format. As 
> well as having historical information without needing to parse log files.
>
> But enough of a plug for my own application :)
Hi Ben,

It's always good to point people to good apps, especially if you wrote 'em 
yourself :-)

But you're right; I should take a look at perfparse. In fact, it's already 
on my list, just didn't find the time to install it yet.

But we will look into it (we're now using apan and mrtg as well, and I 
think some of that functionality, if not all, can be implemented bij 
perfparse).

Richard

> Regards, Ben.
>
>
> Richard Luys wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 08:43:48 +0100, Ben Clewett <Ben at clewett.org.uk> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Anton,
>>>
>>> You may wish to look at PerfParse:
>>>
>>> http://perfparse.sourceforge.net
>>>
>>> This has some options to get this data.  Not yet specific to 
>>> customers, but this is in the pipe-line for future version.  You can 
>>> certainly give customers a read-only view of your data if this is of 
>>> any use...
>>>
>>> Regards, Ben.
>>>
>>> Anton Krall wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Guys.
>>>>  I was wondering, nagios interface is great for sysadmins because of 
>>>> all the
>>>> options but I was wondering if there is any interface project for 
>>>> nagios
>>>> that shows a more limited interface that you can show to your 
>>>> customers, for
>>>> example, if you wanted a customer to be able to view their server 
>>>> status but
>>>> without all the admin links? of course this interface would have to 
>>>> use also
>>>> the host contacts so only appropriate hosts are shown and 
>>>> username/password
>>>> is also asked for auth.
>>>>  Any ideas?
>>>>  Anton Krall
>>>>
>> For your information, we followed a different approach:
>>
>> We did not want to disable the cmd.cgi (which allows you to issue 
>> several commands like disabling notifications, schedule downtime, etc) 
>> because it's very usefull for us admins. But, we do not want customers 
>> to issue those commands.
>>
>> We did the following to circumvent this 'problem':
>> On a second server (that is reachable for our customers) we created 
>> some scripts that use 'wget' to retrieve 'status overview' and detailed 
>> overviews of the different groups. We use normal Apache authentication 
>> with identical id/passwords as on the Nagios-host. Depending on this 
>> authentication, wget will authenticate with the Nagios-host to retrieve 
>> only the data for this specific customer.
>>
>> It works for us, maybe this approach works for others too. If somebody 
>> likes to see more details about this setup, I will be happy to post the 
>> scripts (documentation is not yet complete, but I'm working on it; 
>> scripts are very easy to understand, though).
>>
>> Richard
>>
>>
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