Nagios Support Forum

Good morning,

that's nice suggestions and great feedback, thank you all!

For a conclusion:
To make the patch more usable, there should be made two enhancements:

1.) "cgi_customvar_blacklist" or similar in cgi.cfg to hide specific
custom vars from being blacklisted.

2.) "authorized_for_custom_vars" in contact objects to define the
contacts allowed to view custom vars, with a default value of false.

Some more questions about this:
- What about the generic switch for display of custom vars?
- Should the blacklist parameter be able to deal with patterns (like
"SNMP_*"or something?)?
- What about combining both and define "authorized_for_custom_vars" not
as a binary, but a string parameter, e.g.
"authorized_for_custom_vars=*", "authorized_for_custom_vars=LOCATION_*" etc.

Did i get this right?

One more generic point: rumours (and Andreas' announcement) say, Ethan
"might" be working on some new UI, so do you think it's still useful to
invest work and time to this?

After all, I'm not sure if my copy-and-paste coding skills are
appropriate to fulfill your requests, plus i can't make sure when i'll
be able to find the time to do this. (BTW: Thanks for your support
offer, Hendrik!) First of all i'll give the code a closer look to get a
feeling for this whole programming stuff.


Regards,

Marcus





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