Customizing avail.cgi (two questions)

[Marc Powell]

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> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of
> Richard.A.Childers at wellsfargo.com
> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 1:01 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Customizing avail.cgi (two questions)
> 
> 
> Dear fellow Nagios abusers,
> 
> 
> I am trying to figure out how to provide customized views for
different
> groups, using Nagios.
> 
> What I'd like to do is call avail.cgi and deposit the results in
> separate directories, then make those separate directories
> password-protected by separate htpasswd entries, so that department
> heads can log in and see their servers' history, but no one else's.
> 
> Is this possible? Is there any way to customize the behavior of
> avail.cgi without having to rewrite it (it's a monster)?

Nagios does this automagically if web authentication is enabled (see the
docs). By default authenticated users can only see hosts and services
for which they are authorized contacts. Using that you have a couple of
useful options --

	1) You can add these users as contacts for their services. They
can then log in to nagios and see status for only their hosts/services
and run reports themselves.
	2) If you only want to provide them with reports, create generic
users as above then
> 
> 
> Separately, I've been asked to explain (and possibly eliminate) the
> replicate numbers on the availability report - you know, you have a
> server that's been up 100% of the time, it will have a report saying
> something like "100.000%", followed immediately by the same number in
> parentheses, "(100.000%)".
> 
> What do these numbers in parentheses represent, and why are they
there,
> seeing as they reflect the same number ('Uptime') that's not in
> parentheses? Inquiring minds and all that.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- richard
> 
> 
>
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