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Re: contact vs user

Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2021 1:48 pm
by matson-itops
hrm . Naubert works now, but is a user now
however AK Tos Dev Team also works and is NOT a user, onyl a contact

please explain

Re: contact vs user

Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2021 2:08 pm
by vtrac
The way I explained in the screenshots is how you created a "Contact" by selecting "Create as monitoring contact".

That user do not have any permission to do anything in Nagios XI GUI.


Best Regards,
Vinh

Re: contact vs user

Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2021 10:29 am
by matson-itops
still not working. i see noelle as a user, which is not what we want
we cant have 100+ accounts, contacts is ok.

how to I assign a mailing list to a contact? say [email protected] is one of my contacts.

Re: contact vs user

Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2021 11:23 am
by matson-itops
https://www.devopsschool.com/pdf/nagios ... mailer.pdf

can you review this and see if its a solution?

Re: contact vs user

Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2021 3:34 pm
by vtrac
XI User Contact:
A contact created through the "Add New User" Admin interface by checking the box labeled "Create as a Monitoring Contact".
Core Notification Handlers:


XI Notification Handlers:
Nagios XI notification commands - "xi_host_notification_handler" and "xi_service_notification_handler". These handlers
use the Nagios XI SMTP settings but require that the contact was created as an XI User Contact.


From my test, I created a "XI User Contact" as stated above.
I tested it in Nagios XI 5.8.5 and 5.8.3

Sometimes, it is best to delete a user and re-create it.

Also, the contact that you create will not know his/her user ID or password so will only receive email notifications as assigned by nagiosadmin.


Vinh