See a host, but not get notifications for it

[snapon_admin]

What's the best way to give a user access to view a particular host in Nagios, but not receive email notifications on that particular host? I don't want them to see all hosts, just ones they manage. I want them to receive notifications on the other hosts they manage, but not this one. I want other users to be able to receive notifications for this host, just not a specific group of users.

[slansing]

Create a read only user with a contact, then assign that contact to just that host. Disable notifications on that contact's configuration. That is how I would go about this.

You can create an additional contact for their notifications, and apply that separately.

[snapon_admin]

Hmmm, I'm not sure I 100% follow. We use active directory authentication to sign in, and when I create a User I check the 'create monitoring contact' option as well, so this particular user has a contact associated with his User ID already. Are you saying I can create a second contact and assign it to the same user? If so, how would I go about assigning a local contact to a specific user?

[sreinhardt]

OH so this is an existing user, that has access to other hosts\services and gets notifications for them? If so short of creating a completely secondary user, or having that host\service not notify at all, there isn't too much you can do. (at least off the top of my head)

[snapon_admin]

Ah. Well crap. Ah well, not a huge deal I suppose. Feature request! But seriously, would this be something worthy of a feature request? The ability to make specific users able to see a host or set of hosts and not be notified when there's problems on it? This has actually come up a few times in the past for us and I've never really had a good way of doing it. Maybe have like 2 options, Notification contact and Monitoring contact where Notification means they can see it in Nagios and get notifications and Monitoring means they can see it but won't get emails? I dunno, just shooting out ideas.

[lmiltchev]

You are welcome to file a feature request on our tracker here:

http://tracker.nagios.com

...or I can do it for you.

It's an interesting idea, however I am not sure many users would be interested in this functionality. If there is enough interest, we could implement this in one of our future releases.