Nagios user and permissions
Nagios user used by this extension must have CGI access to the state of all Nagios environment.
For Nagios XI use default admin user!
For Nagios 4.x you can use default admin user or you can create a new one dedicated for the extension. Let’s say we have nagiosadmin
as an default admin user and we are going to create new user dynauser
Create Nagios 4.x user
Locate 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_system_information=nagiosadmin,dynauser
authorized_for_configuration_information=nagiosadmin,dynauser
authorized_for_all_services=nagiosadmin,dynauser
authorized_for_all_hosts=nagiosadmin,dynauser