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Dashboard and Users

Posted: Thu May 21, 2015 9:55 am
by jvanmeter
I'm missing something what I would like to do is have a user callled Printerguy, and the only thing Printerguy can see is a dashboard with printger alerts on it. I can't seam to grabs is how is the printer dashboard link to printerguy so when he logins into nagios xi he only see the dashboard with printer alerts

Re: Dashboard and Users

Posted: Thu May 21, 2015 10:07 am
by tmcdonald
It's not really possible to lock down a user to just one specific page. Any user can view, for example, the Service Details page, but it may have more or fewer results (or none) depending on what his or her permissions are.

Re: Dashboard and Users

Posted: Thu May 21, 2015 10:22 am
by jvanmeter
ok then how can I link the printerguy home dashboard to show printer alerts, but johnv home dashboard shows linux servers. is there a good post about this or book I can buy

Re: Dashboard and Users

Posted: Thu May 21, 2015 10:56 am
by jolson
You may be interested in the 'multi-tenancy' document: https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ios-XI.pdf

This document describes how to restrict users to only viewing particular hosts or hostgroups.