Nagios authentication thru LDAP.

[Allan Clark]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 14:16,  <up at 3.am> wrote:
>> Quoting Robert J Molerio <rjm399 at nyu.edu>:
>>
>>> Can anyone indicate how this can be done?
>>> We would like users to log on to Nagios via LDAP.
>>> I think we need to configure the Apache server within Nagios to be able to
>>> do this but we're not sure.
>>
>> It's definitely possible using Apache's LDAPÂ auth, however you might want to
>> consider that when your network is going ape****, it's really nice to know that
>> your Nagios machine doesn't require any external resources.
>>
>> That's why IÂ chose local auth (htpasswd).
>>
>> Now matter how much of the brown stuff is flying around, Nagios is up.
>
> Those are the times that once I am notified, I wish nagios would shut up already ;-)
>
> For authentication only Nagios will still send out notifications, even if you
> can't get into its web interface, which is all we're talking about authenticating
> here.
>
> Always have more than one LDAP source, but this should be fairly easy to do using
> Apache's mod_auth_ldap.  Disclaimer: I haven't used that mod, but I HAVE used
> mod_auth_xradius, which in turn used radius+LDAP, which has got to be at least as
> complicated as using LDAP directly.

I'll see if I can pull my examples tonight from when I did this a few years ago.

A syncrepl LDAP secondary on the same server as the apache server gets
the best of both worlds: LDAP replication, but it's on the same box so
not prone to network issues.

Allan
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