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Nagios user and permissions

Nagios user used by this extension must have READ CGI access to all host groups. The user doesn't require Frontend access or Admin permissions if this user is used only by this integration. First, we need to create a User group with correct permissions and then create a user who will be a member of created group.the state of all Nagios environment.

Create Nagios 4.x user

The web server must use Basic authentication.

For Nagios 4.x you can use the default admin user or create a new one dedicated for the extension. Let’s say we have nagiosadmin as a default admin user and we are going to create new user dynauser

1. Locate the full path to your htpasswd.users file. It’s usual locations are

• /etc/nagios/htpasswd.users

• /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users

2. Let’s say path is /usr/local/nagios/etc so issue command to add user htpasswd /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users dynauser

3. edit file cgi.cfg, it is located in same directory as htpasswd.users and add after your admin user newly created dynauser

• authorized_for_configuration_information=nagiosadmin,dynauser

• authorized_for_all_services=nagiosadmin,dynauser

• authorized_for_all_hosts=nagiosadmin,dynauser

Create NagiosXI user

For NagiosXI you can use the default admin user or create a new one dedicated for the extension.

Create a user with the following Security Settings

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