Multi tenancy view in Nagios

[vishal313]

Hi All,

We have Nagios XI in our environment. We need to implement Multi Tenancy in Nagios since we have different application teams who will be accessing Nagios XI. The grouping would be based certain criteria such as Prod, Non Prod or Sensitive, Non Sensitive.

Is there a way to achieve this without using the contact grouping. I believe contact grouping would be a huge manual task if its for higher number of applications. Is there way to bulk import if that helps.

Regards
Vishal Dhote

[lmiltchev]

Using contact groups is the way to go. It shouldn't take you a long time at all. It will take you just a few minutes to add a few contact groups under the CCM, for example "Prod", "Non Prod", "Sensitive", and "Non Sensitive". Once the contact groups have been added, you could click on any of them under the CCM, and add multiple contacts or contact groups as members.

CCM > Contact Groups > <your group> > Manage Contacts (or Manage Contact Groups) > Make a selection > Add Selected > Close > Save > Apply Configuration

This shouldn't take long at all.

In addition to this, in Nagios XI Enterprise Edition, you could manage contacts/contact groups in bulk (add contacts and/or contact groups to many objects at once) via the Bulk Modifications Tool. This can be a real time-saver.

CCM > Tools > Bulk Modifications Tool > Add Contact(s) (or Add Contact Group(s))

You could also create configs via some kind of scripting solution, then import the configs to Nagios XI.

CCM > Tools > Import Config Files

This could be a bit more involved, and you can end up with bunch of configuration errors if you don't know what you are doing. In my opinion, using the CCM is the "safer" option.