Adding comments on hosts or services in the web interface
In this recipe, you'll learn how to add comments to hosts or services in the Nagios Core web interface to keep track of information about them for all the web interface's users.
Getting started
You will need access to the Nagios Core web interface and permission to run commands from the CGIs. The sample configuration installed by following the Quick Start Guide provides the nagiosadmin user all the necessary privileges when authenticated via HTTP. You will also need at least one host or service.
If you find that you don't have this privilege, check the authorized_for_all_service_commands and authorized_for_all_host_commands directives in /usr/local/nagios/etc/cgi.cfg and include your username ...
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