[Nagios-users] Questions about Nagios quick search

[Andreas Ericsson]

Would you care to forward the patch so it applies to Nagios 4 as well?

Otherwise it's likely to get dropped on the floor I'm afraid.

On 05/29/2013 06:17 PM, Jonas Meurer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Am 2013-03-01 09:05, schrieb Andreas Ericsson:
>> On 02/28/2013 10:49 PM, Jonas Meurer wrote:
>>> Am 20.02.2013 16:13, schrieb Jonas Meurer:
>>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Hey again,
>>>
>>>> we're using Nagios as monitoring system for several hundred systems.
>>>> While navigating through hosts and services, recently two questions
>>>> regarding the quick search (in navigation bar) raised:
>>>>
>>>> 1/ Why doesn't nagios search for host aliases as well? Is it possible
>>>> to enable alias searching? We're using rather short values for
>>>> host_name, and tend to add information like server position to the
>>>> alias. Thus searching for host_name and alias would be awesome for us.
>>>>
>>
>> Today it's not possible to enable alias searching. Patches welcome.
>> If you create one, please use some format that makes it possible to add
>> searching on other fields as well, such as "alias~<regex>" or some such.
>>
>>>> 2/ When searching for IP addresses, only the first match is returned.
>>>> In some cases (e.g. NRPE Port forwarding through firewall), several
>>>> hosts have the same IP address. For these cases it's rather irritating,
>>>> that only the first matching host is returned.
>>>>
>>
>> Tru dat. Patches welcome. You'll want to find and remove the correct
>> "break" statement, I guess. Other than that it shouldn't be much trouble.
>
> I finally managed to prepare a patch that fixes both shortcomings. It adds
> two new configuration options to configure the behavior of the navigation
> bar search: search for hostname only, or also for addresses, or also for
> aliases.
>
> I reported the patch as feature request at
> http://tracker.nagios.org/view.php?id=459
>
> Kind regards,
>   jonas


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