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.
If you have a distributed setup, where you enable WATO and manage the contact groups central, you can ignore this how-to.
Step-by-step guide
Config on the remote site
Create a contact group on the remote site.
Setup → Users → Contact Groups → Add Group
assign hosts and services to this contact group
For Hosts
Setup → Hosts → Host monitoring Rules → Assignment of hosts to contact groups → Add rule
For Services
Setup → Services → Service monitoring rules → Assignment of services to contact groups → Add rule
Assign the contact group to the user
Setup → Users → Edit User
Config on the central site
If you now login to the central viewer site, you will ony see the hosts/services you're a member of
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