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I am preparing to allow our Data Center operators access to Nagios as an Event Console to monitor and respond to actionable events. My goal is to create a Console or View much like the Operations center that is available with Nagios XI 5.4.2, but I would like to permanently set the Limit To fields for Servicegroup, State and Hide Soft States. This console will be displayed in the Data Center and the operators will be responsible for responding to anything that shows up here. Im afraid (fairly certain) that giving them the option to change the Limit To criteria will result in changing the filtering and causing actionable alerts to be missed, or non-actionable alerts to be addressed. Is there a way to do this via security or an easy way to make my own version of the Operations Center view ?

To write your own component we have this document:

https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ios-XI.pdf

You can gather data from the backend(s) using our API's if you like.

http://<YOUR IP>/nagios/jsonquery.html
XI > Help > Custom API Endpoints

Objects a user doesn't have permission to view will not show up in Operations Center. Is this what you are after?

Yes, we are going to create a hostgroup that only has production or "actionable" hosts in it, then set Service State to only show "Critical" events, and only show Hard States. These are the only events we want them to act on and we don't want them to modify these filters. We can easily do this using the Operations Center view, we will just need to train them on what the filters need to be and not to change them.

A new permissions system for users is planned in the future, but your version is constrained by current behavior.

https://www.nagios.com/roadmaps/

Exactly what you want isn't in Nagios XI proper. If you are interested, we do offer custom development for a fee. Let me know and I'll get you in touch with the right people.