HOSTALIAS macro not expanding in 'hostextinfo', HOSTNAME works. (2.0b6, CGI extended host info)

[Eli Stair]

Running 2.0b6 and I find that these two macros don't evaluate as I 
believe they should.

Going on the 2.0 docs, $HOSTALIAS$ seems just as valid as $HOSTNAME$ in 
the context of using it for an extended host information macro.  In this 
case however, $HOSTNAME$ works while $HOSTALIAS$ goes unexpanded.

I'm using the format of having the FQDN be an alias, so as to avoid 
having to enter longnames for each entry, service dependency, etc, and 
mostly to have the shorter format displayed from the CGI's.  I need the 
FQDN expressed to pass extended info requests to Ganglia/Cacti pages.

If this is proper behaviour, I can create a hostextinfo stanza for each 
DNS group, and make inclusive hostlists, then append the domain to the 
end of the url string...

/eli

where:

#extended host info:
define hostextinfo{
         hostgroup       deathstar-opteron

  notes_url 
http://overseer/?r=day&c=Opteron+2.4+ghz+Deathstar+Cluster&h=$HOSTNAME$
#vs:
  notes_url 
http://overseer/?r=day&c=Opteron+2.4+ghz+Deathstar+Cluster&h=$HOSTALIAS$
}
#/extended host info

##### <host>
define host{
use                     linux-node-production
host_name               deathstar2000
alias                   deathstar2000.domain.name
}



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