Multi-Tenancy

[swiftarcher]

I have a multi-tenancy system setup for departments. But if I create a dashboard with Summary Hostgroup it shows every hostgroup that the Host is a member of. This host could be a member of different solutions i.e. Email systems Hostgroup, but may also be a member of Infrastructure Hostgroup. But I only want to see it as part of Email System Hostgroup for the local IT team. But then Global support just require Infrastructure Hostgroup. Hope this makes sense.

[lmiltchev]

It is true that when a host is added as a member to multiple hostgroups, adding the "Host Status Summary" dashlet to a dashboard would show all of the hostgrouops, the host is a member of (provided user is authorized to see this host). Currently, this is the default behavior. In Nagios XI 5.5, there will be a lot better granularity as far as multi-tenancy goes. I am not sure if the "Host Status Summary" behavior would change though.

Have you tried adding a hostgroup status instead (as a "workaround")?

For example:
1. Go to Dashboards > Add New Dashboard, and add two dashboards - "Infrastructure", and "Email System".
2. Go to Home > Hostgroup Overview, and click on the dashify icon (Add This To a Dashboard) to add "Infrastructure Hostgroup" to the "Infrastructure" dashboard, and the "Email System Hostgroup" to the "Email System" dashboard.
3. Go to Dashboards > Deploy Dashboards, and deploy "Infrastructure" dashboard to Global Support users, and "Email System" dashboard to local IT team users.

[swiftarcher]

Thank you for that. The only issue with that is that when you have a board of 20 odd Hostgroups it get very untidy and some hostgroups have around 200 servers so they tend to be below the main screen. We use it like a Warboard so its mounted on the wall for the team to keep an eye on.

[cdienger]

I'm not finding a working alternative and would like to point out that 5.5 is expected this quarter(https://www.nagios.com/roadmaps/) so it may be best to put this on hold until it can be tested on 5.5.

[swiftarcher]

ok thank you for you help

[tmcdonald]

Are we alright to close this up then? Or did you have further (related) questions?

[swiftarcher]

Hi Yes please close.