View options for hosts and services

[Tim Kotterlink]

Hi Jim,

thanks a lot. This solved the problem. Too bad I was already working on this problem for 2 days :-(

Cheers, Tim.
 
> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:40:40 +0000
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] View options for hosts and services
> From: jim at jimavery.me.uk
> To: t_kotterlink at hotmail.com
> CC: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> 
> 2009/2/26 Tim Kotterlink <t_kotterlink at hotmail.com>:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have got a problem with my Nagios configuration and hope somebody can help
> > me. I have got 2 different users. The first one is admin-account and the
> > second one is view-account. The configuration for the cgi's is no problem
> > and use_authentication is set to 1. That is why I don't have a problem with
> > logging in to the Nagios monitoring and getting access to all the different
> > views in the left box (service detail, host detail, service problems,
> > process info, view config, etc.). It is also no problem for giving one
> > account more or less access in the left box. The problem is specific when I
> > click on the service details or hosts details. The admin-account is
> > configured to be a contact for all of the different hosts and services. The
> > view-account is only configured for a couple of hosts and services. When I
> > now log in with the view-account I still see all the hosts and services,
> > also the ones this account is no contact for. To be more specific.
> >
> > admin-account
> > Is contact for Host1, Host2, Host3, Host4 and Host5. And also for Service1,
> > Service2 and Service3.
> >
> > view-account
> > Is contact only for Host1 and Service2.
> >
> > At this moment I want to log in to Nagios. If I do this with the
> > admin-account, I want to see all the hosts and services. If I log in with
> > the view-account I only want to see Host1 and Service2. Can this be
> > arranged???
> >
> > At this moment I am using Nagios version 3.0.5. In the past I had this
> > working with Nagios version 2.9. Also someone else had this working with
> > Nagios version 3.0.3. So is it possible that this is a bug in version 3.0.5?
> > If it is, where and how can I ask if this can be fixed?
> >
> > I already have read the documentation and archives of this maillinglist.
> > Unfortunately till now I have found the sollution. Also created a post on a
> > forum: http://forums.meulie.net/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=4565&p=15816#p15816
> 
> 
> You should have in your cgi.cfg:
> 
> authorized_for_all_services=admin-account
> authorized_for_all_hosts=admin_account
> 
> 
> (so view_account is not authorized for all). I might be best to
> double-check this before looking too much further.

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