Read-only access to Nagios

[Chris Moody]

If all you want is view only... set the following value:

cgi.cfg:
use_authentication=0

This will cause the maps/dashboard to be visible...but nobody can modify 
anything.

Cheers,
-Chris

Jim Perrin wrote:
> On 9/6/06, Peter Blajev <pblajev at ucsd.edu> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> our department decided to give some kind of publicity for Nagios in the
>> company. I'm doing a research to find out what can be done and any help or
>> suggestions are highly appreciated.
>>
>> An ideal situation will be if we can give users a single URL that will allow
>> read-only, no login/password access to Nagios graphs. By read-only I mean
>> they won't be able to acknowledge problems, restart services and so on.
>>
>> If this can't be done then can we create accounts with restricted permissions
>> and have them login to the main Nagios site?
>>
>> Anyone "been there, done that"? :-)
> 
> You can do this with a patch from Ton Voon and Altinity. It allows you
> to set certain users who are allowed to issue commands, and others who
> cannot.  See http://altinity.blogs.com/dotorg/2006/02/index.html for
> details. It defaults to allowing users to make changes for
> compatibility, but it's easy to reverse if you want to lock everyone
> out and explicitly allow them.
> 

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