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In a distributed setup, you can use the contact groups from the remote site to see only certain things provided by this contact group on the central viewer site. 

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Note
You can ignore this how-to if you have a distributed setup

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where you enable WATO and manage the contact groups central

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Getting Started

Background information regarding this subject is available on our:


Step-by-step guide

  1. Config on the remote site

    1. Create a contact group on the remote site. 

      Setup → Users → Contact Groups → Add Group
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    2. Assign hosts and services to this contact group.


      For Hosts

      Setup → Hosts → Host monitoring Rules → Assignment of hosts to contact groups → Add rule
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      For Services

      Setup → Services → Service monitoring rules → Assignment of services to contact groups → Add rule
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    3. Assign the contact group to the user.

      Setup → Users → Edit User
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  2. Config on the central site


    1. Setup → Users → Edit
    2. User 
    1. User
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    2. If you now

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    1. log in to the central viewer site, you will

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    1. only see the hosts/services you're a member of.

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    1. Sreenshot of edit user cmkadmin. Visibility of host set to only show hosts and services the user is a contact for.Image Added



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