Hi Lars,
I have only a nagios3 test environment here with ndo and there is a db
field for the alias in it:
SELECT display_name, alias FROM nagios_hosts n LIMIT 0,1000;
display_name is the host_name und alias the alias.
Is it different in nagios2-ndo?
Regards
Hendrik
Lars Michelsen schrieb:
> Hi devels,
> i'm searching for a way to display the host alias in NagVis. There are
> 2 ways I selected as possible solutions for me:
>
> - Reading from NDO (But atm the host alias is not in NDO)
> - Reading from NagVis configuration (have to edit for each host manual)
>
> The first method would be much more comfortable and is my favorite
> solution. In NagVis itselfes it is not the easiest solution to get
> this work but the cleanest.
>
> Now, how to implement in NDO? I think the easiest way is to fill
> "name2" in nagios_objects table with the host alias - but the name2 is
> part of the index and a host-dataset is explicit without name2. So the
> cleanest solution would be to extend the nagios_hosts table with an
> attribute "host_alias".
>
> Any better ideas/solutions for this?
> Are there reasons why host_alias is not stored in NDO?
>
> Regards,
> Lars
>
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