BitFolk » Monitoring

...even more, I'd like to be able to use the aNag Android app to poll the Bitfolk Nagios. That especially being a use case where I'd feel much more comfortable saving a separate Nagios password than my main Bitfolk account password.

Any chance of this happening?

As you may know I'm currently working on replacing BitFolk's Nagios with an Icinga 2.x install.

Over the last few days I have confirmed that Icinga Web (the separate web frontend project) can authenticate from multiple sources, so this seems a good way to go. There are however a couple of bad points:

1. Of the supported methods (Basic Auth, LDAP, Active Directory, DB) only DB and LDAP are relevant. The main BitFolk authentication is LDAP and I'm not setting up another for the few people who will want a separate monitoring password, so that leaves DB. The support for DB authentication is limited to MD5 password hashes (with salt).
2. It will try both (all) configured authentication methods, so if you accidentally put in your BitFolk credentials then that will still work.

That's not ideal, but I still think this is probably the best thing I can come up with so I am going to go ahead with this.

The new monitoring is not ready yet but I will let you know as soon as there is something to look at. If you would like to email me a password for it PGP-encrypted then please do send me a hash, which can be generated like this:

$ openssl passwd -1 -salt qwerty
Password: 
$1$qwerty$x7NQcrhk6fVkbopQM.24m0

Changed the subject to say "monitoring" rather than "Nagios" as we don't use Nagios any more.

Interest in this is probably quite low so not sure if I will expose it in the BitFolk Panel, but the workaround mentioned above (sending support a separate password hash) needs to be documented on the Monitoring wiki page.