Nagios, 2nd Edition

E.5 Microsoft Internet Explorer as a Web Client

Microsoft Internet Explorer can handle both the SPNEGO/Kerberos and the NTLM authentication procedures. For reasons of security, however, Internet Explorer does not always immediately provide information on account data. You should therefore enter the Nagios host in the security settings under Trusted Sites, using exactly the same URL that it will be called with later on (Figure E-3).

Figure E-3. How to add hosts for trusted sites in Internet Explorer

In addition you should check, in Custom Level, whether the user name and password really need to be transmitted for the level selected (Figure E-4). After ...