Nagios

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:25:37PM -0400, stan wrote:
> I had a contractor set up nagios for use in monitoring machines on our
> internal network. One of the punch list items that he left undone was to
> defeat the requirment that users log in to allow them to access nagios. 
> 
> This is an internal deploymnet, and I really don't want the users to have
> to do this to use this system.
> 
> How can I cahnge this behavior?
Can you use default_user_name=guest ?

Justin

If you're absolutely sure you want to do this, simply edit cgi.cfg and set
use_authentication = 0

(the line is already there by default and set to 1 so just find the line and
change it)

Regards
Martin Melin

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 6:25 PM, stan <stanb@...> wrote:

> I had a contractor set up nagios for use in monitoring machines on our
> internal network. One of the punch list items that he left undone was to
> defeat the requirment that users log in to allow them to access nagios.
>
> This is an internal deploymnet, and I really don't want the users to have
> to do this to use this system.
>
> How can I cahnge this behavior?
>
>
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> One of the main causes of the fall of the roman empire was that, lacking
> zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C
> programs.
>
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On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 09:33:29AM -0700, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:25:37PM -0400, stan wrote:
> > I had a contractor set up nagios for use in monitoring machines on our
> > internal network. One of the punch list items that he left undone was to
> > defeat the requirment that users log in to allow them to access nagios. 
> > 
> > This is an internal deploymnet, and I really don't want the users to have
> > to do this to use this system.
> > 
> > How can I cahnge this behavior?
> Can you use default_user_name=guest ?
> 

My preference is not to burden the users with the whole login step. Can
this be done using that?

-- 
One of the main causes of the fall of the roman empire was that, lacking
zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C
programs.

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 06:37:02PM +0200, Martin Melin wrote:
> If you're absolutely sure you want to do this, simply edit cgi.cfg and set
> use_authentication = 0
> 
> (the line is already there by default and set to 1 so just find the line and
> change it)
> 

That is what I am looking for.

However, I did make this change, as you sugested, and I still get the login
box, when I try to go to, for instance, the map.

It's a CGI script. so I should not have to restart anything, right?

BTW does it matter that he implemente  nagvis?


-- 
One of the main causes of the fall of the roman empire was that, lacking
zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C
programs.

2009/9/23 stan <stanb@...>:
> BTW does it matter that he implemente  nagvis?

Probably.  Nagvis will probably have certain users authorised to edit
maps.  If your users don't authenticate to Nagios, it's quite likely
none of them will be able to make changes to your nagvis maps.  This
might, or might not, be what you want!

Assuming you're not going to get your contractor back in to continue a
hand-over process, I recommend the book "Nagios" by Wolfgang Barth
pub. No Starch Press to give you a head-start in understanding how
Nagios and some of the popular add-ons work.

hth,

Jim

On Sep 23, 2009, at 3:37 PM, stan wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 06:37:02PM +0200, Martin Melin wrote:
>> If you're absolutely sure you want to do this, simply edit cgi.cfg  
>> and set
>> use_authentication = 0
>>
>> (the line is already there by default and set to 1 so just find the  
>> line and
>> change it)
>>
>
> That is what I am looking for.
>
> However, I did make this change, as you sugested, and I still get  
> the login
> box, when I try to go to, for instance, the map.

Did you remove the htaccess configuration? It's your web server that's  
actually presenting the login box and authenticating it. The cgi.cfg  
option just determines if nagios will pay attention to the username  
presented by your web server. Depending on your nagios version and how  
you configured it (i.e. which docs you read or which OS provided  
package you used), this may be a .htaccess file within nagios' sbin  
and share directories or in the httpd.conf file or the nagios include  
to httpd.conf.

--
Marc

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:25 AM, stan <stanb@...> wrote:
> I had a contractor set up nagios for use in monitoring machines on our
> internal network. One of the punch list items that he left undone was to
> defeat the requirment that users log in to allow them to access nagios.
>
> This is an internal deploymnet, and I really don't want the users to have
> to do this to use this system.
>
> How can I cahnge this behavior?
>
>
> --
> One of the main causes of the fall of the roman empire was that, lacking
> zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C
> programs.
>

I typically just setup "Nagios Checker" for Firefox and input the
credentials once.  Probably won't suite your needs but it did mine.

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