Using authenticated contacts
In this recipe, we'll learn how to use authenticated contacts to refine our control of access to information in the Nagios Core web interface. This recipe is
useful in situations where a particular user requires information on the status of certain hosts and services but should not be allowed to view others, a setup which can't be managed with the directives in cgi.cfg
.
As a simple example, on a given monitoring server, we might have two hosts configured thus:
define host { use linux-server host_name sparta.naginet alias sparta address 10.128.0.21 contacts nagiosadmin } define host { use linux-server host_name athens.naginet alias athens address 10.128.0.22 contacts nagiosadmin }
We might like to add a new user athensadmin ...
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