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I have nagiosxi 5.10.0. (I can't upgrade until end of year)

I'm trying to use the api to list unconfigured objects then remove based on a filter. I've written a script and it is able to get the list of unconfigured objects but it gets a 403 when the delete is attempted.

I'm an admin and my token is working. I can't find manage api under admin menu to check the permissions for the token.

Can you help me find where I can check/change permissions for my token.

dslaughter wrote: ↑Wed Apr 16, 2025 9:19 am I have nagiosxi 5.10.0. (I can't upgrade until end of year)

I'm trying to use the api to list unconfigured objects then remove based on a filter. I've written a script and it is able to get the list of unconfigured objects but it gets a 403 when the delete is attempted.

I'm an admin and my token is working. I can't find manage api under admin menu to check the permissions for the token.

Can you help me find where I can check/change permissions for my token.

I don't believe there are granular permissions like that for api tokens within Nagios. It's more of if you have admin or api access then you have a token that will work for api linked to the account.

Thank you for your quick response. Do you know if there is a log that might help identify what permissions are needed? I'm an admin. I get the list of unconfigured objects so the connect is good and the token works. I only get the 403 when I try to remove from unconfigured objects.

Hi @dslaughter,

I've included a link to our REST API documentation here: https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ST-API.pdf

At this time, the Object API is read-only, and I'm not seeing any Core commands that are able to delete objects either.

Thank you for your response. My problem is I have a lot of unconfigured objects. I have so many because I have traps that come in with a service name that I don't define so I have to configure only some of the unconfigured objects. I thought I found a way to delete unconfigured objects using the api based on a service name filter. My script works except that the delete doesn't work and your response explains why.

Do you know of a way to select individual unconfigured objects for configuration? I only see a a way to configure all unconfigured objects for a host when I only need few to config. As of now I have to delete as many as a thousand objects to configure 30. It's not optimal but until I can get the service name before I start receiving the unconfigured objects this is what I have to work with. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thank you

If anyone is interested...

I wrote a selenium script to access unconfigured objects page. I was able to collect the objects, and delete the ones that didn't match my filter.