Mike, "what is AuthBasicFake, for what auth mechanism it is for?" It's an apache function to allow automatic authentication. In this instance, we are on a private network where people are already logged into a workstation and there is no reason log in to a read-only monitoring solution. I have nagios and mrtg setup the same.
I understand that the world seems to think you need to login to look at monitoring, but i believe differently. The only person who needs to do that is the person who is making a change. In the case of Observium, mrtg and nagios, almost all of this is done at the command-line.
so in my apache conf "/etc/apache2/vhosts.d/observium.conf" i have AuthBasicFake guest guest Require all granted
and the guest user is level 5, in observium.
I use this cause i saw no obvious solution inside for Observium for automatic read-only behaviour.
thanks
Peter Hine Senior Technical Support Engineer (Servers) Corporate Services | Federal Court of Australia
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