Action Component script - is the user available to my script

[skynardo]

Testing a script to be executed via Components Action Command. I'd like to capture the username of the nagios user that clicked on the action (in my script). Is this possible?

[mcapra]

Possible? Probably, but the work would be non-trivial. You could grab the cookie's nagiosxi value and reverse engineer that against the PHP session data (in /var/lib/php/session/sess_<nagiosxi_val_from_cookie>).

Another option would be to use some clever jQuery to pass the username in the top-left corner of the page off to the script via arguments.

[SteveBeauchemin]

Doesn't Quick Actions have a user parameter that shows who is the current logged in user?
Maybe try having this passed to your script at some point.

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%username%

Admin menu / Manage Components / Actions --> settings
Add it to your URL / Command: line
Update your script to read it.

You cannot capture the user name, but you can pass it to the script.

That is how I do it.

Steve B

[mcapra]

Sure enough, you're correct! The work is actually pretty trivial, as it turns out. From the component:

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// Try getting the user
    $username = get_user_attr(0, "username");

    if (empty($username))
        $username = "UNKNOWN_USER";

So your command might look like this:

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php -q /tmp/user.php %username%

[skynardo]

Thank you, all I had to do was pass %username% to my script as you said Steve. The doc I was using only mentioned the Host and Service Macros available to Actions component.

[cdienger]

Did you have any additional questions on this topic?

[skynardo]

No, all good, thanks