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As introduced in 1.4, we now have search by alias in both the Quick search and Host Group search. Quick Search does not auto complete list when searching alias, but does by host. Was this over looked, or just not possible to auto complete aliases?

I can confirm this behavior. We will be looking into this and will be posting a possible solution as soon as we can.

Today I was following-up on the status of the issue mentioned above. However, I've also noticed in Nagios XI 2012R1.8 you can no longer even search by Alias in either of the search boxes.

We have an internal feature request filed on the issue. I don't have an ETA for it, but this depends on the priority of the other projects on our TODO list.
In the Nagios XI 2012R1.8 you can't auto-complete alias, but you can search for it. Are you saying that when you enter a valid host or service description name in the "Quick Find" search bar, and hit "Enter" you don't see any results?

lmiltchev wrote:We have an internal feature request filed on the issue. I don't have an ETA for it, but this depends on the priority of the other projects on our TODO list.
In the Nagios XI 2012R1.8 you can't auto-complete alias, but you can search for it. Are you saying that when you enter a valid host or service description name in the "Quick Find" search bar, and hit "Enter" you don't see any results?

I'm trying to search by Alias name which differs from the corresponding host name.

eg: Monitoring a host named "host1.domain.com" with an Alias of "webserver90", I'd like to be able to search for "webserver" and see all results.

TBT wrote:I'm trying to search by Alias name which differs from the corresponding host name.

eg: Monitoring a host named "host1.domain.com" with an Alias of "webserver90", I'd like to be able to search for "webserver" and see all results.

It should find these in the search (I just re-tested and verified), but will not populate the auto-complete

I have made modification to include alias in the auto-complete that will be in the next release, you can use it now by unzipping and placing the attached files in the correct locations

/usr/local/nagiosxi/html/includes/utils-xmlobjects.inc.php
/usr/local/nagiosxi/html/suggest.php

scottwilkerson wrote:I have made modification to include alias in the auto-complete that will be in the next release, you can use it now by unzipping and placing the attached files in the correct locations

/usr/local/nagiosxi/html/includes/utils-xmlobjects.inc.php
/usr/local/nagiosxi/html/suggest.php

Thank you for the prompt action.

Let us know if you have any issues with modified components.

Have you tried the steps, outlined by scottwilkerson? Is auto-complete working as expected now?