Monitoring with Opsview

Creating user accounts

Now that we have a running Opsview installation, it is time to look at user management.

Within Opsview, a user is referred to as a contact while the group he or she belongs to is called a role.

Permissions and views (what a contact can see in Opsview) are based on the role a contact belongs to. The Opsview help system is available within these screens, and so we'll only cover the most important parts just to get you going (I strongly advise you to play around with various settings to get a feel for the permissions).

Adding and assigning roles

Creating roles is done by going to settings | Administration | Roles.

You can either add a new role by clicking on the green plus sign (located at the upper-left corner of the screen), ...