[Nagios-users] Questions about Nagios quick search

Jonas Meurer jonas at freesources.org
Mon Jun 3 12:09:52 CEST 2013


Hello,

any comments on that?

Kind regards,
  jonas

Am 2013-05-29 18:17, schrieb Jonas Meurer:
> 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:
>>>> 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
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