Restrict users to view certain Server

[vnc786]

Hi,
Nagios XI 2012R2.5
OS=CentOS 6.4 4 bit

I have 10 servers which Nagios is monitoring.

I have created 2 users with name one and two.

I want to restrict user one to first 5 server and user two to other 5 servers.

Currently hosts are not added in hostgroup

User one and two should not be able to know each others server

Howerver, i have tried creating 2 Hostgroup with name h1 and h2

i am not sure how do i achieve this any help will be appreciated !!

i viewed this http://support.nagios.com/forum/viewtop ... =7&t=21794
thanks

[abrist]

Non admin users are restricted to only viewing the objects they are contacts for. Have you made the users alerting contacts for their respective servers?

[vnc786]

thanks for reply..it is working as per requirement but how does this authentication/permission works. can you give me some reference to document...

[abrist]

but how does this authentication/permission works

Could you clarify?

[vnc786]

Could you clarify?

my first understanding of Contact / Contact group was just that it is "some person address to which nagios send notification" but after your answer I came to know that Contact are not just mere contact but they also act as to restrict view of host/services
just wondering what more can be done with contact / contact group
thank you very much. !!!

[slansing]

Yes, so essentially, if you have a contact assigned to one of your users, if that user is restricted as a non admin account, that cannot control all hosts/services he should only be able to see services under hosts that he is assigned to.

[abrist]

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... ntacts.pdf