WATO configuration variables

This article describes the WATO related configuration options in multisite.mk.

Basic settings

This section is still missing. Sorry. Currently there are only two variables which are explained the setup anyway.

wato_enabled

Enable/Disable WATO completely. This is a boolean flag which is set to True by default.

wato_host_tags

This description is still missing. Sorry.

wato_aux_tags

This description is still missing. Sorry.

wato_hide_filenames

This options hides the name of the WATO configuration files from the WATO GUI. This boolean flag is set to True by default.

wato_hide_hosttags

Hides the hosttags from the host list views. This is set to False by default.

wato_hide_varnames

Hides the variable names in the WATO rule editor. This is set to False by default.

wato_max_snapshots

Defines the maximum number of WATO snapshots to keep on the server. The value is set to 50 by default. This means when creating the 51th snapshot the first snapshot is being removed.

wato_activation_method

The mode to use when applying the new Nagios configuration from WATO. Can either be set to restart (default) or reload.

wato_hidden_users

Hide users with the given names from the WATO views. This option is configured as list, e.g. wato_hidden_users = ['secret-user', 'secret-user2']

Integration of other addons

wato_write_nagvis_auth

This tells WATO to generate the authorisation definition file to be used in NagVis. The feature is described in detail in the Managing NagVis permissions in WATO article.

The option is a boolean flag. It is set to False by default. The feature can be enabled like this:

wato_write_nagvis_auth = True