Security

The monitoring module provides an additional set of restrictions and permissions that can be used for access control. The following sections will list those restrictions and permissions in detail:

Permissions

The monitoring module allows to send commands to an Icinga 2 instance. A user needs specific permissions to be able to send those commands when using the monitoring module.

Name	Permits
monitoring/command/*	Allow all commands.
monitoring/command/schedule-check	Allow scheduling host and service checks.
monitoring/command/schedule-check/active-only	Allow scheduling host and service checks. (Only on objects with active checks enabled)
monitoring/command/acknowledge-problem	Allow acknowledging host and service problems.
monitoring/command/remove-acknowledgement	Allow removing problem acknowledgements.
monitoring/command/comment/*	Allow adding and deleting host and service comments.
monitoring/command/comment/add	Allow commenting on hosts and services.
monitoring/command/comment/delete	Allow deleting host and service comments.
monitoring/command/downtime/*	Allow scheduling and deleting host and service downtimes.
monitoring/command/downtime/schedule	Allow scheduling host and service downtimes.
monitoring/command/downtime/delete	Allow deleting host and service downtimes.
monitoring/command/process-check-result	Allow processing host and service check results.
monitoring/command/feature/instance	Allow processing commands for toggling features on an instance-wide basis.
monitoring/command/feature/object/*	Allow processing commands for toggling features on host and service objects.
monitoring/command/feature/object/active-checks	Allow processing commands for toggling active checks on host and service objects.
monitoring/command/feature/object/passive-checks	Allow processing commands for toggling passive checks on host and service objects.
monitoring/command/feature/object/notifications	Allow processing commands for toggling notifications on host and service objects.
monitoring/command/feature/object/event-handler	Allow processing commands for toggling event handlers on host and service objects.
monitoring/command/feature/object/flap-detection	Allow processing commands for toggling flap detection on host and service objects.
monitoring/command/send-custom-notification	Allow sending custom notifications for hosts and services.

Restrictions

The monitoring module allows filtering objects:

Keys	Restricts
monitoring/filter/objects	Applies a filter to all hosts and services.

This filter will affect all hosts and services. Furthermore, it will also affect all related objects, like notifications, downtimes and events. If a service is hidden, all notifications, downtimes on that service will be hidden too.

Filter Column Names

The following filter column names are available in filter expressions:

Column	Description
instance_name	Filter on an Icinga 2 instance.
host_name	Filter on host object names.
hostgroup_name	Filter on hostgroup object names.
service_description	Filter on service object names.
servicegroup_name	Filter on servicegroup object names.
all custom variables prefixed with _host_ or _service_	Filter on specified custom variables.