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Hi Guys

I have a question.

With NCPA you have to code the 'mytoken' in your services.cfg file right, Is there a way to encrypt this token as it is clear text in a file?
Is this not a security concern having a "password" in clear text?

Good Morning, I am very new to Nagios core and need some help. I have a few servers i am trying to monitor. We currently monitor CPU, MEM and DISK. But i want to execute a script on each machine that will check a certain service and gives me a feedback like ONLINE or OFFLINE. How would i go by to co...

The $HOSTNAME$ macro needs to be %host% instead so change the command to the following example. /cdirect/scripts/telegram_service_notify.sh "%host%" "%hoststate%" Did you enable the Event handler in the component and Apply the Settings? Do you see the script being ran in the /us...

Thank you very much for this information, I am currently working through the documentation. I have immediately tried the Global Event Handlers out of pure excitement! :) What I have done is Put a command line script into the "Service State Change Commands". My Command is : /cdirect/scripts...

Good morning, I need some help and not sure if i can ask this here. We are currently trialing Nagios and need some help. I have 3 requests. 1. I need Nagios to kick off a local script on Nagios server, when a Warning or Critical was received, and pass some variables to this script. This is for teleg...

If you own the directory above any script you can move the directory out and replace it with your own and your own permissions. $ cd /usr/local/nagiosxi/ $ mv scripts scripts_orig $ mkdir -p scripts $ echo “exec /bin/ksh” > scripts/change_timezone.sh $ chmod 755 scripts/change_timezone.sh $ sudo /us...

Th response from our IT Security:

The risk is /usr/local/nagiosxi is not owned by root and nmagios can change / modify any of the files / folders in this directory thus nothing in or below this directory will be catered to run as root.

We Installed version 5.6.1.

Could you maybe give me a short briefing what i can provide to my IT Security team to relook this then please ?

Thanks in advance.

Good Day Scott, Thank you for your response, I am pasting below the exact response that our IT Security provided to me. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OK if the sudo were permitted then here is how you can get full root access. Three Qui...

Hi There, We are currently trying to implement Nagios into our environment. Our IT Security is not approving it due to lines like the below being put into the /etc/sudoers file during the installation. This is apparently root compromise. Could someone shed some light on this or a workaround ? NAGIOS...