Users management with Nagios

Here's a how to about the users management under Nagios. For Example when we want that the user user1 has access to a ressource.

Configuration

• OS : Debian squeeze 6.0.5
• Nagios : 3.2.1-2

How To

User's creation

root@host:~# htpasswd /etc/nagios3/htpasswd.users user1

Contact and right definition

• Edit the /etc/nagios3/conf.d/contacts_nagios2.cfg file

define_contact {
#####Contact definition
}
define_contactgroup {
#####We indicate access
}