[Users] Nagios monitoring plugin check_rhev3 1.2.1 released

[Itamar Heim]

On 07/24/2013 11:26 AM, René Koch (ovido) wrote:
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> On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 18:11 +0200, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 5:44 PM, René Koch (ovido) wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm happy to announce version 1.2.1 of check_rhev3.
>>
>>> A detailed usage documentation can be found here:
>>> https://github.com/ovido/check_rhev3/wiki/Usage-Documentation
>>>
>>
>>>
>>> Thank you for using check_rhev3.
>>
>> Inside the detailed doc
>> "
>> All RHEV Checks are executed via RHEV REST-API, so the following
>> requirements must be met:
>>
>> HTTPS connection from Monitoring server to RHEV Manager (default: TCP/8443)
>> RHEV Admin user for REST-API login
>> "
>>
>> Can we somehow limit the power of the user?
>> Is there a predefined role that has a sort of "select all" (such as
>> 'select any table' in Oracle terms) or could it be easily built and
>> set?
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>
> This was required for RHEV 3.0, which was the version I initially wrote
> the plugin for.
>
> For newer versions (>= 3.1) of oVirt and RHEV you only need the
> following permissions (create new role for it, or is there a role
> available in oVirt > 3.2.1?):
> Account Type: Admin
> System - Configure System - Login Permissions

there should be a built-in 'viewer' role with this

>
> This allows a user to connect to REST-API (and Administrator Portal) and
> read everything, but doesn't allow any changes (=> read only).
>
> I'll update the documentation.
> Thanks for reporting this documentation bug.