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+#!/bin/bash
+# I, Ian Kelling, follow the GNU license recommendations at
+# https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-recommendations.en.html. They
+# recommend that small programs, < 300 lines, be licensed under the
+# Apache License 2.0. This file contains or is part of one or more small
+# programs. If a small program grows beyond 300 lines, I plan to switch
+# its license to GPL.
+
+# Copyright 2024 Ian Kelling
+
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+
+# this was part of distro-end
+
+### begin nagios ###
+
+pi nagios-nrpe-server
+
+case $HOSTNAME in
+ kd)
+ # the backport is for this bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=800345
+ pi nagios4 nagios-nrpe-plugin monitoring-plugins-basic/bullseye-backports
+ s rm -fv /etc/apache2/conf-enabled/nagios4-cgi.conf
+
+ # to add a password for admin:
+ # htdigest /etc/nagios4/htdigest.users Nagios4 iank
+ # now using the same pass as prometheus
+
+ # nagstamon auth settings, set to digest instead of basic.
+
+ web-conf -p 3005 - apache2 i.b8.nz <<'EOF'
+# adapted from /etc/apache2/conf-enabled/nagios4-cgi.conf
+
+ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/nagios4 /usr/lib/cgi-bin/nagios4
+ScriptAlias /nagios4/cgi-bin /usr/lib/cgi-bin/nagios4
+
+# Where the stylesheets (config files) reside
+Alias /nagios4/stylesheets /etc/nagios4/stylesheets
+
+# Where the HTML pages live
+Alias /nagios4 /usr/share/nagios4/htdocs
+
+<DirectoryMatch (/usr/share/nagios4/htdocs|/usr/lib/cgi-bin/nagios4|/etc/nagios4/stylesheets)>
+ Options FollowSymLinks
+ DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
+ AllowOverride AuthConfig
+ #
+ # The default Debian nagios4 install sets use_authentication=0 in
+ # /etc/nagios4/cgi.cfg, which turns off nagos's internal authentication.
+ # This is insecure. As a compromise this default apache2 configuration
+ # only allows private IP addresses access.
+ #
+ # The <Files>...</Files> below shows how you can secure the nagios4
+ # web site so anybody can view it, but only authenticated users can issue
+ # commands (such as silence notifications). To do that replace the
+ # "Require all granted" with "Require valid-user", and use htdigest
+ # program from the apache2-utils package to add users to
+ # /etc/nagios4/htdigest.users.
+ #
+ # A step up is to insist all users validate themselves by moving
+ # the stanza's in the <Files>..<Files> into the <DirectoryMatch>.
+ # Then by setting use_authentication=1 in /etc/nagios4/cgi.cfg you
+ # can configure which people get to see a particular service from
+ # within the nagios configuration.
+ #
+ AuthDigestDomain "Nagios4"
+ AuthDigestProvider file
+ AuthUserFile "/etc/nagios4-htdigest.users"
+ AuthGroupFile "/etc/group"
+ AuthName "Nagios4"
+ AuthType Digest
+ Require valid-user
+</DirectoryMatch>
+
+<Directory /usr/share/nagios4/htdocs>
+ Options +ExecCGI
+</Directory>
+EOF
+ ;;
+esac
+
+# when you alter a service through the web, it changes vars in /var/lib/nagios4/status.dat. for example:
+# notifications_enabled=1
+# note, the same variable exists in the correspdonding "define service {"
+
+# in the default config, we have these definitions
+
+# 11 define command {
+# 2 define contact {
+# 1 define contactgroup {
+# 9 define host {
+# 4 define hostgroup {
+# 23 define service {
+# 5 define timeperiod {
+
+
+# on klaxon
+
+# klaxon:/etc/nagios3 # grep -rho '^ *define [^{ ]*' | sort | uniq -c
+# 76 define command
+# 11 define contact
+# 6 define contactgroup
+# 162 define host
+# 1 define hostextinfo
+# 16 define hostgroup
+# 3040 define service
+# 2 define servicedependency
+# 6 define timeperiod
+
+
+
+
+### end nagios ###