Nagios Host and Service Sort Type

[DigNetwerk]

Hi,

Can NagiosXI please implement sorting like the "-g" option in GNU sort? (they call it general-numeric-sort, compare according to general numerical value).

Tons of hosts and services have some sort of numeric component in them (like port numbers on switches and routers, or the routers themselves, CPU's, ...) and it's utterly frustrating the way Nagios sorts them.

Or make it configurable or provide some sort of patch?

BTW: this is called "natural order" sort in PHP http://php.net/manual/en/function.natsort.php

Normal "wrong" sort:

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% echo "
3
1
2
11
13
12
" | sort
1
11
12
13
2
3

General Numeric sort

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% echo "
3
1
2
11
13
12
" | sort -g
1
2
3
11
12
13

[lmiltchev]

This totally makes sense to me. I posted an internal feature request for adding this functionality in XI (TASK ID 7641). Thanks for the feedback!

[DigNetwerk]

Thanks!

[hsmith]

We can leave this thread open, but I do have to request that it isn't bumped until later when you want to check on the feature request. If a Nagios employee isn't the last poster on a thread, it gets added to our dashboard saying it's in need of attention.

Thanks!