Would you care to forward the patch so it applies to Nagios 4 as well? Otherwise it's likely to get dropped on the floor I'm afraid.
On 05/29/2013 06:17 PM, Jonas Meurer wrote: > Hello, > > 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: >>>> Hello, >>> >>> Hey again, >>> >>>> 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~<regex>" 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 -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How ServiceNow helps IT people transform IT departments: 1. A cloud service to automate IT design, transition and operations 2. Dashboards that offer high-level views of enterprise services 3. A single system of record for all IT processes http://p.sf.net/sfu/servicenow-d2d-j _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
