Orphan hosts in hostgroup list

[Arno Lehmann]

Hi,

29.07.2008 21:47, Bernd Arnold wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> as the number of hosts grow, I sometimes would like to see which hosts are not added to any hostgroup.

Good idea.

> I've written a patch for status.c where an additional hostgroup called "Orphan Hosts" is created and filled automatically. The configuration files remain untouched.
> 
> I kept things very simple, so this is what doesn't work:
> - link to extinfo.cgi 

That's a disadvantage, though not critical IMO.

>   (permission warning, since the hostgroup is only added in status.c)
> - a check if there is already a hostgroup named "orphans"

Minor problem, too.

> - show the additional hostgroup only when I need it (the hostgroup is always displayed)

Do you intend to improve this?

> The patch was created with "diff -U 3 cgi/status.c.orig cgi/status.c". The function create_orphan_hosts_hostgroup() is called where I thought it is best to be called (after fetching the authentication information).
> 
> Maybe someone likes this feature... Comments are welcome.

Sure... please do something similar for the service groups ;-)

Arno

> Regards
> Bernd 
> 
> 
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