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I know I can leverage multi-tenancy to restrict what user can view. Is there a way to restrict and/or allow a user to add or configure objects that they can view, but no other objects. If you grant the user "Can (re)configure hosts and services" the user can add any object to Nagios xi.

As a example, PrinterGuy, can only respond to printer issues. I would like to grant PrinterGuy the ability to add printers to Nagios, but not linux servers.

Nagios has no way of knowing what is a printer and what is a Linux server when you are adding it, because it basically only has an IP to go off of. We don't have any syntax to define device type.

my apologizes that was just a example. What I would like to do is restrict a user to not be able to add anything other then what he/she can view.

It's a bit of a Catch-22, since the object has to exist before you can attach a contact/user to it. Attaching a contact to a host is what allows that contact (and its associated user) to view the host.