Re: [Nagios-users] HTTP server authentication requirements for accessing this CGI.

[ankush g. <gro...@gm...>]

Hi Jimmy,

You need to enable authentication in cgi.cfg.

use_authentication=1

authorized_for_all_host_commands=admin
authorized_for_all_hosts=admin
authorized_for_all_service_commands=admin
authorized_for_all_services=admin
authorized_for_configuration_information=admin
authorized_for_system_commands=admin
authorized_for_system_information=admin


Something like this in nagios.conf file for apache (On my linux box
that is centos 5.x it is /etc/httpd/conf.d/nagios.conf)

<Directory "/usr/lib/nagios/cgi">
#  SSLRequireSSL
   Options ExecCGI
   AllowOverride None
   Order allow,deny
   Allow from all
#  Order deny,allow
#  Deny from all
#  Allow from 127.0.0.1
   AuthName "Nagios Access"
   AuthType Basic
   AuthUserFile /etc/nagios/htpasswd.users
   Require valid-user
</Directory>

Alias /nagios "/usr/share/nagios"

<Directory "/usr/share/nagios">
#  SSLRequireSSL
   Options None
   AllowOverride None
   Order allow,deny
   Allow from all
#  Order deny,allow
#  Deny from all
#  Allow from 127.0.0.1
   AuthName "Nagios Access"
   AuthType Basic
   AuthUserFile /etc/nagios/htpasswd.users
   Require valid-user
</Directory>


Now use htpasswd command to generate htpasswd.users file with user admin.

htpasswd -c /etc/nagios/htpasswd.users   admin


Regards

Ankush


On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Jimmyboy <jim...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have installed Apache2.2.9 using the source file
> 'Apache2_2.2.9.orig.tar.gz'.
> Nagios 3.0.6 is also installed on Ubuntu Intrepid OS using the Quickstart
> Guide. I am able to open http://localhost/nagios.
>
> However, certain entities on the left pane, such as 'Process Info', 'Network
> Outages', etc are not getting opened. They error out with the following
> message.
>
> "It appears as though you do not have permission to view information for any
> of the hosts you requested... If you believe this is an error, check the
> HTTP server authentication requirements for accessing this CGI and check the
> authorization options in your CGI configuration file."
>
> I followed http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2002/09/26/nagios.html?page=3.
> Configuration of httpd.conf says ScriptAlias /nagios/cgi-bin/
> /usr/local/nagios/sbin/. But, I do not have a directory 'cgi-bin' under
> nagios directory. Morever, I do not see the 'sites-available' &
> other directories named similarly under my /usr/local/apache2/conf
> directory. Will that be a problem?
>
> But, still, I am at same stage. Anyone, any idea, how to go about?
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
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