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Understanding Users And Contacts in Nagios XI

Nagios administrators who have experience with managing existing Nagios Core installations or wish to migrate from Nagios Core to Nagios XI may wish to better understand how contacts and users differ, as well as the details of how they are joined through configuration settings. This information is also helpful for day-to-day user administration for all Nagios XI admins.

This document describes the relationships between users and contacts in Nagios XI.

Understanding Nagios XI Users And Contacts

The User Management section of the XI Admin Guide has additional details on topics such as Roles and Multi-tenancy:

User Management - Nagios XI Admin Guide

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