Re: [Nagios-devel] [Nagios-users] Questions about Nagios quick

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Re: [Nagios-devel] [Nagios-users] Questions about Nagios quick

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Hello,

any comments on that?

Kind regards,
jonas

Am 2013-05-29 18:17, schrieb Jonas Meurer:
> 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:
>>>> 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~" 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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