Plans regarding display_name directive

[gcs]

What is the status or plan regarding implementing support for the display_name directive in the Web GUI / Highcharts, etc. in Nagios XI for hosts/services?

E.g. from http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nagi ... .html#host :
display_name: This directive is used to define an alternate name that should be displayed in the web interface for this host. If not specified, this defaults to the value you specify for the host_name directive. Note: The current CGIs do not use this option, although future versions of the web interface will.

We use a combination of automated import and NRDP for monitoring, and all hosts/services have a unique and constant but non-user friendly identifier, as well as a user-friendly display name that is not guaranteed to be unique or constant. This means that we have to use the identifier for the hostname/service description so we can import/resynchronise Nagios with our systems and for matching up with the check results from NRDP, however the users would prefer the display names as they make for sense for them as that is what they see in their other UI's.

[tmcdonald]

I don't see a task created for this specifically, so I'll create the feature request and get it on the developers' dashboards.

[abrist]

I just talked to the devs. This is on the roadmap for the next major XI release.

[gcs]

Ok, we'll look forward to that.