Orphan hosts in hostgroup list

[Bernd Arnold]

Thanks for your comment, Arno.

The attached patch creates an orphan hostgroup *and* servicegroup - similar to the other patch. This means, the same things apply to this patch (no extinfo, ...).

I'll try to improve this...

Regards
Bernd


-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:22:10 +0200
> Von: Arno Lehmann <al at its-lehmann.de>
> An: Nagios Developers List <nagios-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Betreff: Re: [Nagios-devel] Orphan hosts in hostgroup list

> 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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> > 
> 
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> 

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