Nagios viewport scripting

[Richard Luys]

For whom is interested:

Here is our solution to the problem of letting people have insight in the 
monitoring status without actually connecting to the Nagios-host.

It's quick-and-dirty (so is the 'written on the fly' documentation) but 
hopefully it is usefull to someone or at least gives them some great 
ideas...

Of course comments, ideas, suggestions are always welcome :-)

See attached textfile for the scripts and some extra information (it's not 
great documentation yet, I know. Everyone with a basic knowledge of 
scripting should be able to understand what i've done).

If somebody has a problem with the attachment, contact me and I will put 
the full text in the body...

Richard

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 10:44:37 +0200, Sand Philipp <Philipp.Sand at sycor.de> 
wrote:

> I think it would be very interesting for us if you could post the
> scripts and documentation...
> If you do plan to write a documentation about it, for me it's ok, to
> wait a few days :)
> Thanks in advance,
> Philipp
>
>> 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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R. Luys
Vanderlet BV
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