Permissions and Multi-Tenancy

A key component of multi-tenancy is the ability to restrict a given user's permissions to allow them to see and control only hosts and services they are authorized for. GV GUARDIAN automatically determines what hosts and services a user is authorized to see based on their relationship to those hosts and services.

By default, GV GUARDIAN grants users permission to see and control hosts and services that are configured to:

Send alerts to the user (contact)
Send alerts to a contact group the user (contact) is a member of

Objects are all the elements that are involved in the monitoring and notification logic. Types of objects include:

Services
Service Groups
Hosts
Host Groups
Contacts
Contact Groups
Commands
Time Periods
Notification Escalations
Notification and Execution Dependencies

A key to understanding the relationships between objects and the corresponding permissions that contacts have is knowing how different types of objects relate to each other:

Users (contacts) may belong to one or more contact groups
Hosts and services may be configured to send alerts to multiple contacts or contact groups
Hosts and services may be members of one or more host groups or service groups, respectively