User/ contact configuration question.

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benhank
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User/ contact configuration question.

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is it possible to do the following:
Allow a user to be notified when a host(group) goes down.
He logs into nagios and can see all the devices in nagios even the ones is not notified on.
BUT he can only modify add remove devices that is contacted for.
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Re: User/ contact configuration question.

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Almost... In Admin -> Manage Users -> Edit you can select
Can see all hosts and services:
Can (re)configure hosts and services:

But your the part about
benhank wrote:BUT he can only modify add remove devices that is contacted for.
Not really any way to allow someone to add a device that they are the contact for, as you cannot set the contact until the device is added...
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benhank
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Re: User/ contact configuration question.

Post by benhank »

i did not phrase that correctly.

nagios has 3 hostgroups. each hostgroup has 10 devices
hG1,hg2,hg3
User1 gets notifications for hg1. he can see all 3 hg's.
i want him to be able to see all 3 HG's but only make changes to devices in hg1.
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Re: User/ contact configuration question.

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In this case, go to: Admin -> Manage Users -> Edit
Un-select "Can (re)configure hosts and services:" and click on "Update User".
Add this user as a contact ONLY to hosts, members of hg1. This way, the user will be able to see all of the hosts but modify only the members of hg1.

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Re: User/ contact configuration question.

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O M G! you guys ROCK!
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Re: User/ contact configuration question.

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I'm glad I could help!
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