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thank you for the input, after I posted the light bulb came on and I remember that we restrict what can run under tmp. so I had to mod the script so it cd to ~/ and the install finished fine.

I'm trying to run the NagiosXI-Nagvis.sh
-rwx------ 1 root root 5331 Jun 29 2011 NagiosXI-Nagvis.sh

the installation appears to fail with the following error

Installed:
graphviz.x86_64 0:2.26.0-10.el6

Complete!
./NagiosXI-Nagvis.sh: line 128: ./install.sh: Permission denied

my apologizes that was just a example. What I would like to do is restrict a user to not be able to add anything other then what he/she can view.

I know I can leverage multi-tenancy to restrict what user can view. Is there a way to restrict and/or allow a user to add or configure objects that they can view, but no other objects. If you grant the user "Can (re)configure hosts and services" the user can add any object to Nagios xi. As...

Thank you,

so I re-create the same username and password, that I have in LDAP, locally in Nagios XI GUI

Can I use LDAP to authenticate my users and configure Multi-Tenancy to ensure those specific users have access only to hosts and services they are authorized to view and maintain, or does the user need to be created via the Nagios xi GUI for multi-tenancy to work?

yes but with the hosts.cfg and servers.cfg file missing, how would the import know what servers or services to monitor? Would it be defined in another cfg file?

I copied the etc directory and sub directories from my currect nagios servers to usr/local/nagios/etc/cfgprep/orig on my nagios xi server. Next I started to run the below commands. php /usr/local/nagiosxi/tools/xiprepimport.php orig/commands.cfg php /usr/local/nagiosxi/tools/xiprepimport.php orig/co...

ok then how can I link the printerguy home dashboard to show printer alerts, but johnv home dashboard shows linux servers. is there a good post about this or book I can buy

I'm missing something what I would like to do is have a user callled Printerguy, and the only thing Printerguy can see is a dashboard with printger alerts on it. I can't seam to grabs is how is the printer dashboard link to printerguy so when he logins into nagios xi he only see the dashboard with p...