What would you want in a replacement web interface?

[Morris, Patrick]

Israel Brewster wrote:
> No, knowing how to do "regular expression" (or wildcard) searches is 
> not an extreme requirement. In fact, it makes perfect sense, and I am 
> intimately familiar with both. That said, last time I tried that it 
> didn't work - I'm not so stupid as to not think to try a simple 
> wildcard :-). On the other hand, I'm running 3.0.6, as that is what is 
> distributed with the stable version of OpenBSD. Perhaps this is 
> something that was fixed in 3.1 or 3.2? I seem to recall reading 
> something about a new web interface. So my point stands that this is 
> MY biggest gripe with the web interface. If it's already been fixed, 
> awesome! :-)
>
> On Nov 24, 2009, at 11:48 AM, shadih rahman wrote:
>
>> This is not an issue.  nagios search bar does regular expression 
>> search.  do ffs-* in your box and it will result in all the hosts. 
>>
>> Nagios is a monitoring tool.  I think nagios users and administrators 
>> are some what involved with technology.  Knowing how to do "regular 
>> expression" search is not an extreme requirement.
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Israel Brewster 
>> <israel at frontierflying.com <mailto:israel at frontierflying.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     2009/11/16 Taylor Dondich <tdondich at lilacnetworks.com
>>     <mailto:tdondich at lilacnetworks.com>>:
>>
>>         #3) What is your biggest gripe regarding the existing Nagios
>>         web user
>>         interface?
>>
>>
>>
>>     The lack of a real search. The select box is practically useless.
>>     For example, I have a bunch of hosts named ffs-<whatever>, but if
>>     I type in ffs- to the search box, I only get one result. I would
>>     really like a real (albeit simple) search so if I type ffs, I get
>>     ALL hosts containing ffs.
>>

While we're complaining about the search bar: How about having the 
search pull up something other than hosts. It drives me nuts that I 
can't get hits on a hostgroup or servicegroup name, for example.

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