Opinion Sought... Essential Nagios 3rd PartyApps.

[Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)]

Hi Dimitry,

Yep.  NLG 2.0 release is code-named "Padlock" for this very reason!  The 
main goal is purely on security, anything else I can get going will be a 
bonus, and it will feature a complete security model.

In v2, you'll be able to create users and tag them to groups.  Users can 
then be assigned to host- and/or service-groups, as well as 
hosts/services themselves.  Users and individual groups will be able to 
have different permission levels, and if a user is defined in a group, 
but has explicit permissions on their username, the individual 
permissions will override that of the group (the way I see it at the 
moment, unless anyone has any objections / other ideas?)

As for how it links in with Nagios, I'm not sure yet whether to pick up 
the contact group a user is in, or to leave NLG permissions completely 
separate to Nagios?

In NLG 2, the view will also revolve around host/service groups as 
opposed to the hosts/services themselves.  At the moment I'm thinking 
something along the lines of (in the network browser):

- Network Status
--- Web servers (host group)
----- Web 01
----- Web 02
--- Mail servers (host group)
----- Mail 01
----- Mail 02
--- Web services (service group)
----- www.websiteone.com on Web 01
----- www.websiteone.com (user login) on Web 02
--- Mail services (service group)
----- SMTP server on Mail 01
----- IMAP server on Mail 01
----- IMAP server on Mail 02#

Thoughts on any of the above, anyone?

If you need anything quick in the meantime, NLG 1.0.6 features 
custom-filters, so you can only include certain hosts in the filter view 
filters.  This only works on the hostname set in Nagios, and each host 
has to be explicitly set (i.e. it doesn't allow for regex's.)  This was 
a quick-fix patch I put in for a user back in v1.0.2, and it became a 
popular requested feature so I put it in the trunk for the 1.0.6 release.

Thanks,

Andy.

Sapon, Dimitry wrote:
> Andy,
>
> In the future release, will it allow the ability to customize which
> hosts you want to view, maybe by viewing only certain host groups (by
> specifically choosing them or through some REGEX on the name)? 
>
> Also, in terms of security, are you planning on implementing who can
> view what services based on the if they are a contact of that
> service/host? 
>
> Regards,
> Dimitry
>
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> [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Andy
> Shellam (Mailing Lists)
> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 1:40 PM
> To: Chris Stankaitis
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Opinion Sought... Essential Nagios 3rd
> PartyApps.
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> I'm playing my own trumpet a bit here, but I started a project called
> Nagios Looking Glass - it's aim is to provide a prettier, read-only
> interface to users with the essentials "at-a-glance" without the
> complexity of the Nagios GUI.
>
> The view-switching between servers, services and network status all uses
> AJAX.  The next major release series (2.x) promises to provide much more
> security features, and better views on the information that's in your
> Nagios system.
>
> Check out http://looking-glass.andyshellam.eu for a live demo, or
> www.nagioslookingglass.co.uk for the project website.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andy.
>
> Chris Stankaitis wrote:
>   
>> We have been using Nagios for a very long time, I have been running it
>>     
>
>   
>> under an older rev for a bit because everything has worked, and there 
>> have been no new features that my install has needed.  However for 
>> various reasons we are now looking to upgrade to current.
>>
>> I would like some opinions of what the must have 3rd party apps are 
>> for nagios (beyond say NSCA) to make life easier for config, make 
>> nagios look prettier (some Ajax eye candy would be nice in the 
>> interface), extend information presented (graphs etc)...
>>
>> basically if your using an app... and your asking yourself why the 
>> heck don't they just put this into the main trunk of the program 
>> because we can't live without it then I would like to know about that 
>> app and investigate it for my own inclusion in my upgrade.
>>
>> Thanks for the recommendations in advanced.
>>
>> --Chris
>>
>>
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