Questions about Nagios quick search

[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.

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