Hi! I've got a problem that I don't how to solve best in Nagios. I think other people have run into the same problem (I know that someone has run into a /similar/ problem).
I'm running 2.5 on a mid-sized installations (~300 hosts, ~2500 services). Thing is, our projects/(host|service)groups vary wildly in who is responsible for them. Unfortunately, all these projects are also heavily intertwined in their dependencies. Say we have a web mail project A. This consists of several web servers, databases and the like. It is heavily dependent on the LDAP project B and the mail server project C. While B and C have the same group of admins, project A is managed by an entirely different group of people. As such, we have configured Nagios that the group that is responsible for project can only see the machines of project A and the "B-and-C-people" can only see B and C. Everything is peachy. Except. Sometimes, project A may look like it's broken (pages time out etc). But in reality, there's a spam attack and the project B (the LDAP infrastructure) is so slow it simply grinds to a halt. In this case it would obviously be nice if the people from project A could see that project B is slow. Yet they should not be able to change the notification options/acknowledgements etc etc of projects B or C. The altinity people have created a patch for the "view some, change none" scenario[0]. Unfortunately, what I'd need is a mechanism for the "view some, change a few" scenario I outlined above. How do others deal with this kind of problem? I'm sure we're not the only ones who've run into it. As of currently, our best guess would be to create pseudo-accounts (like john.foo and john.foo-admin) and hack the CGI(s) to only allow the commands from -admin accounts which are in the notification list (with notification options set to "n"). We already do this to let people see machines they don't mailed/paged/called about. Regards, Tobias [0] http://altinity.blogs.com/dotorg/2006/02/a_view_some_cha.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
