Regular users working with contacts and contact groups.

[Pres-Gas]

I have some users (created as a monitoring contact) who would like to be able to add other existing contacts to their checks, maybe even manage their own contact groups. At this moment, they can:
[*]Can (re)configure hosts and services :
[*]Can control all hosts and services :
[*]Can access advanced features:
But when they run a configuration wizard, they have no options to check boxes for other users as they can't see them (see screenshot).

Screenshot_2015-10-01_12-54-57.png

What changes need to be made for these users so that they can add other users? Better yet, self manage contact groups without becoming admin?
Thanks,
Robert

[lmiltchev]

What is the Nagios XI version that you are currently using?

[Pres-Gas]

I knew I was forgetting something! Nagios XI 2014R2.7 running on RHEL 6.7.

Robert

[lmiltchev]

It is not a good idea for users (non-admins) to be able to add other users as monitoring contacts or be able to manage users for that matter. However, in XI5 contact that are members of a contactgroup can add this contactgroup when running wizards or via "Configure->Re-configure..." menu.

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- Added ability for users with "Can (re)configure hosts and services" perms to add/remove contactgroups they are members of when running wizards and reconfiguring objects -SW

https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... NGES-5.TXT

I would recommend upgrading to the latest version of XI.

[Pres-Gas]

I only wish for users to be able to add already existing monitoring contacts or groups that they are a member of. So it sounds like this is what we are looking for. I would like to keep this open to confirm the upgrade feature works "as advertised". I plan on upgrading our test instance next week for this purpose.

Thanks!
Robert

P.S. Ironic that I looked for updates the Friday before release!!

[hsmith]

Let us know if it works the way you want.

Thanks!

[Pres-Gas]

I confirm that the release provides what we are looking for with contact groups. Please consider this fixed.

Thanks,
Robert

[rkennedy]

Glad to see this was resolved, I will close this out now, but feel free to open another thread if you need anything in the future.