Host searching

[Israel Brewster]

On Oct 4, 2007, at 10:56 PM, hindrek murdsalu wrote:

> Hey,
>
> I gather the 'freenasxxx' servers are somehow connected to each other
> (they're in same farm or provide same services), if so you could just
> define a hostgroup named 'freenas servers' or whichever name you  
> desire
> and add the servers as members to it so you'd be able to list them all
> in 1 window.
> This, of course, isn't a solution to search rather than being an
> alternative.
>
>
> Hindrek
>
>

Thanks for the response. Yeah, with that example a hostgroup could be  
a relatively adequate solution. I'll have to consider it further for  
organizational sake, if nothing else. the problem though is that this  
is only one example of where I would want a real search, and others  
may not work as well with this solution. I can't count the number of  
times I have wanted to get the IP for a given device, but don't  
remember exactly what I named it (such as freenasbrw or brw-freenas)  
or else have some other device with a similar name that comes up  
first. Or, perhaps for a better example, I know I have a printer out  
in Nome, but I can't remember if that was the xerox F12 or M15. To  
work with the hostgroup solution, I would need to have that in a  
"Nome" hostgroup. But I would also want it in a "printers" host group  
for logic sake, and perhaps a "F12" or "M15" hostgroup as well, for  
situations when I want to see where in the network I have a given  
type of printer. Can I put things in multiple host groups? I'll have  
to look into that. And no, with about a dozen different locations  
around the state, and probably at least as many different types of  
printers around the company, I'm not quite yet to the point where I  
can remember them all off the top of my head :)
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Israel Brewster
Computer Support Technician
Frontier Flying Service Inc.
5245 Airport Industrial Rd
Fairbanks, AK 99709
(907) 450-7250 x293
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> Israel
> Brewster
> Sent: 5. oktoober 2007. a. 0:00
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> Subject: [Nagios-users] Host searching
>
> Is there a way to search for a host in Nagios? For example, I have a
> number of hosts set up named freenasxxx, where xxx is the three-
> letter designator for the location. I would like to be able to type
> freenas and get a list of all of them. Or if I named one xxx-freenas
> for some reason, but don't remember that, I would like to be able to
> do the same thing and get that one as well. The "show host" box in
> the default sidebar only shows the first result for a partial match,
> which is almost useless. I did find < http://www.nagiosexchange.org/
> Misc.36.0.html?&tx_netnagext_pi1[p_view]=553 >, which almost works,
> but has the problem of inserting two tabs before the hostname when
> you choose one of the options, which makes the search return no
> results. You can delete the tabs, of course, but  this brings up the
> choice list again with the first item selected, so when you hit enter
> you get the tabs back. It also shows each host twice for some reason
> (I'm using the php script version). Any suggestions would be
> appreciated. Thanks!
>
> -----------------------------------------------
> Israel Brewster
> Computer Support Technician
> Frontier Flying Service Inc.
> 5245 Airport Industrial Rd
> Fairbanks, AK 99709
> (907) 450-7250 x293
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