opennms loginless readonly access

Question

I would like to let users view opennms data without logging in. That is, the whole ui in read only mode.

I realise that I can create a guest user for this, but people then need too know the username and password for this user.

Answer 1

I asked your question on the OpenNMS-discuss mailing list (archive), and got the following reply:

Assuming you are using jetty, you can modify $OPENNMS_HOME/jetty-webapps/opennms/WEB-INF/applicationContext-acegi-security.xml and add ROLE_ANONYMOUS to the pages you would like to be visible without logging in. Probably OK in a friendly environment, but perhaps not if you are highly concerned about security issues. (If you're not using jetty, its webapps instead of jetty-webapps in the path)

See also http://www.opennms.org/wiki/Dashboard#Anonymous%5Fdashboards

--Bill--