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Hi,
I need to add a authentication token in my nagios to connect it to another monitoring tool.
I am not able to find anything that can work. please help.

Nagios Core does not have a concept of authentication tokens, it uses apache basic authentication with users/passwords.

Nagios XI has API tokens and access, in our commercial product
https://www.nagios.com/products/nagios-xi/

Is there any scope to add authorization token while sending an alert?

diksharawat wrote:Is there any scope to add authorization token while sending an alert?

No, however in Nagios XI we do have rapid response URLs that can be used without credentials.

Thanks for the reply @scottwilkerson.
I am sorry if i am able to make myself clear or if i am not getting what you.
My problem is:
I am integrating Nagios with Alerta, and for that i need to add token in my Nagios configuration, so that with correct token, Nagios will be authorized to send alerts to Alerta.
Our Alerta is using token concept to authorize who all can send alerts to it.
Is there a way i can do this with Nagios core or i need to buy NagiosXI?

I am not familiar with Alerta, do you need to ann Alerta's Authentication token?

There isn't an authentication token for Nagios or Nagios XI that can be included in notifications.

Notification and event handlers have a concept of "arguments", as does any old Nagios command definition:
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... tions.html
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... dlers.html

Assuming this token is to be provided to some sort of API call, you could include that as an argument in your notification or event handler.

Here's a reference implementation of a Twilio integration I did:
https://support.nagios.com/forum/viewto ... 94#p252294

In which case I'm passing my "token" via -u <credentials> to a simple curl. That curl could be a custom script, some sort of binary, practically whatever you want/need to communicate with Alerta.

It looks like Alerta has an API as well as a Python client. Both of these could be integrated with Nagios Core as I have described above.

Thanks @mcapra!

@mcapra
Thanks for the reply.
I am not sending events to ALerta using curl. We are using ALerta's alerta-neb.c file given in https://github.com/alerta/nagios-alerta.
I have given endpoint in nagios.cfg as Alerta's IP and port.
I am not able to find a way to add token.
Is there any way i can do that?

On the alerta page you linked I see this example, is this what you are looking for?

To provide the API key if authentication is enabled on the alerta server:

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broker_module=/usr/lib/nagios/alerta-neb.o http://localhost:8080 key=INSERT_API_KEY_HERE