Hide services in web interface

[jdcassin]

Hi! I have a question about the web interface.
I recently added a switch in nagios web interace(host) and have several services which I would like to hide, but I would like to receive notifications, for example I have Ping, and for every important interface such as a trunk interface.
I tried "register 0" command but its like im removing the service cause I dont receive notifications.
I have almost 50 interfaces that I would like to monitor, but I dont want them to appear in the web interface, but I wish to receive notifications when these interfaces fails or are down.
How can I hide this services?
Thanks

[tmcdonald]

Without editing the source and recompiling this is not possible. The closest you could get would be to have a group that includes all other hosts/services (or includes all and excludes a few you do not want to see) and only ever view that group. However it will still show up in non-group-dependent sections of the interface.

register 0 means to treat it as a template that other objects can use.

[JohnFLi]

There is away to only show the services you want to see, yet get notified for all.

Create yourself a second account. Add this second account to the "authorized_for_system_information" in the cgi file, only.
next, make a new contact for this second account.

Now, for the fun part......
add this second account to the contacts ONLY for the services you want to see.

Code: Select all

service_description            	C Drive Space
	display_name                   	C:\ Drive Space
	use                            	local-service,graphed-service
	check_command                  	check_nt!USEDDISKSPACE!-l c -w 85 -c 90
	initial_state                  	o
	max_check_attempts             	5
	check_interval                 	1
	retry_interval                 	1
	check_period                   	24x7
	process_perf_data              	1
	notification_interval          	15
	notification_options           	w,c,r
	notifications_enabled          	1
	contacts                       	testuser
	register                       	1

Once you're finished, log into the web interface as the second account.

In the example above, when logging into the web interface as 'testuser' I only see the hosts that has that service check, and no other services.

becasue your main account is set to be notified for everything, you will still get everything.

[tmcdonald]

That will work, but make sure that you switch over to the admin account whenever you need to do anything like scheduling downtime, acknowledging problems, etc.