Nagios 3 ACK author

[Sven Wiedeck]

Hi,

thanks for the replies but we don't want to create user accounts for >  
30 people if it's not absolutely neccesary.

So the auto-login is the only way so far...

Sven


Am 08.05.2009 um 13:11 schrieb Jim Avery:

> 2009/5/8 Sven Wiedeck <sven.wiedeck at wunderloop.com>:
>> Hi everybody,
>> a few words before:
>> -> we're running a Nagios 3 installation
>> -> logins are disabled - everybody is nagiosadmin per default (only
>> internally reachable)
>> Now I'm searching for a possibility to force the users to enter  
>> their name
>> when they acknowledge a problem.
>> Currenty the author name is set to the default login per default
>> (nagiosadmin).
>> Some people leave this name in there and we can't see who has ack'ed.
>> Is there any way to leave the author name empty that Nagios rejects  
>> the ack
>> without entering a name?
>> Thanks a lot,
>> Sven
>
>
> I guess you need to look in /usr/local/nagios/etc/cgi.cfg:
>
>  # LOCK AUTHOR NAMES OPTION
>  # This option determines whether users can change the author name
>  # when submitting comments, scheduling downtime.  If disabled, the
>  # author names will be locked into their contact name, as defined  
> in Nagios.
>  # Values: 0 = allow editing author names
>  #         1 = lock author names (disallow editing)
>
>  lock_author_names=1
>
> And configure Nagios so that people will login using their own  
> username.
>
> hth,
>
> Jim

Sven
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