Re: [Perfparse-users] Groups tied to nagios groups?

[Ben C. <Be...@cl...>]

Steve,

Groups and Nagios.

It is hard to use the Nagios groups as-is because:
- They may be on a different machine.
- They may be in a database PP cannot read.
- They may contain hosts which PP does not contain.
- PP may contain hosts which Nagios may not.
- PP may read from a cluster of Nagios installations, which all may have 
different conflicting groups.

We do plan an install script of some form in the future which will copy 
the groups.  Sorry about the manual replication, please keep watching 
for new releases.

Restriction of administrative functions: That's a good question!

There is no way with the current version to disable the administrative 
functions.  We do have plans to build a command line option to set the 
administrative functions.  This would be linked to a flag so that these 
function were optionally displayed on the CGI on a given host. 
Therefore an installation on one machine might or might not show these 
options.

If you want to do this manually now, it can be completed easily with a 
small edit to the code:

Install PP on a new machine used just for public view.  Before you 
'make', edit the file cgi_intro.c.  This contains a menu.  Delete or 
comment out the lines of code displaying the administrative functions 
and 'make install'.

I will note your request for attention for the a version some time soon.

Regards,

Ben


PS, Garry, some good questions for your FAQ :)


Steve Foley wrote:

> I just installed the latest version of perfparse with Nagios 2.0a1 last 
> week. All appears to be working well. By default, it looks like all of 
> my hosts show up in the same group within perfparse. Is there any way I 
> can have the same hostgroups in perfparse as in nagios without doing it 
> by hand every time?
> 
> Also, is there any easy way to restrict modification of deletion 
> policies? Id like to make the custom graphing abilities public to the 
> nagios groups, but I dont want everyone to be able to delete data.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Steve
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> Steve Foley
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