Category: Nagios
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Monitor VMware ESXi hardware without root (Nagios)
Download and configure the plugin: https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Operating-Systems/*-Virtual-Environments/VMWare/check_esxi_hardware-2Epy/ – Create a new user in ESXi with no access privilege, you need to login to the ESXi directly to do that. – Enable SSH, and add nagios user to root group: # vi /etc/group root:x:0:root,nagios – Check from the command line, if it works ./check_esxi_hardware.py –host https://esxihost:5989 –user…
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Host group based access restriction – Nagios
This is useful especially when you have different host groups belongs to different entities and you need to have access separation. The basic idea is to use the same login user name in the contact groups. I assume that you have Apache htaccess authentication or LDAP authentication in place. You may create new contact group…