Ability to hide/show groups in Icingaweb2

[phinnay]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

We utilize groups for some behind-the-scenes activities like cluster identification and schedules. Currently, those groups show up in Icingaweb2 even though there is no benefit to their visibility or they contain duplicate items.

Describe the solution you'd like

I'd like to be able to specify something in my group definition config that would turn off it's appearance in Icingaweb2

example:
vars.groups.hidden = true

Describe alternatives you've considered

We hide some elements based on user login. This is tedious.

Additional context

[nilmerg]

Hi, you basically want the same as #3349 and #3550, though as hostgroup only filter.

While both issues above can be worked-around by using custom variables in restrictions, you want to limit access to specific hostgroups only (not their hosts/services) which is not possible this way.

This differentiation is not possible yet, but we're aware of it. There's need for a rewrite of our current authorization mechanics already and we'll make sure this differentiation will be part of it.

[phinnay]

thank you!