Nagios, 2nd Edition

H.11 CGI

The Nagios Web interface has also undergone some interesting changes. Some new parameters have been added to the configuration file cgi.cfg (A.2 CGI Configuration in cgi.cfg, page 606). lock_author_names prevents the user name, which is included if you set an acknowledgement or a comment on a host or service, from being changed. Instead the user name specified by the user when authenticating himself to the Web server is used. Each registered user is thus an authenticated user.

escape_html_tags determines whether HTML formatting in the plugin output is used (value 0) or whether Nagios removes it (value 1). In order to link it with action_url (16.4.1 Extended host information) and notes_url (16.4.1 Extended host information), there is now ...