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minimum ESX host user permissions?
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2018 2:55 pm
by nortonhealthcare
It looks like we're going to have to create local accounts on all our ESX hosts to monitor them. What are the minimum security requirements a user can have to allow Nagios to pull the monitoring data?
Re: minimum ESX host user permissions?
Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2018 10:33 am
by jforcier
When setting up the local user they will need read-only access.
Here is a post about monitoring an ESX host without having to use the local ESX host root account.
https://support.nagios.com/forum/viewto ... 693#p41137
Re: minimum ESX host user permissions?
Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2018 3:02 pm
by ssax
Thanks jforcier!
Yes, you should be able to get by with setting up a read-only user.