Using display_name in a Host Definition

[Ben Short]

Hi Michael,

Thanks for the reply. I'll take a look at OMD.

Ben

On 13 January 2012 15:41, Michael Friedrich
<michael.friedrich at univie.ac.at> wrote:
> Ben Short wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to use the display_name param in my host definitions. But
>> it's not being used as the host name in the Nagios website.
>
> $ grep display_name cgi/*
>
>>
>> I know that the document website [1] says 'Note: The current CGIs do
>> not use this option, although future versions of the web interface
>> will.' but I have found a bug [2] that has been marked as fixed. Did
>> this bug make it into Nagios Core?
>
> this feature was reported to nagios as display_name for statusmap.cgi,
> somewhere on nagios-devel lists.
>
> i took the liberty to implement full display_name support in icinga
> classic ui at that time but never reported nor backported a patch to nagios.
>
> given the recent statement by nagios developers on not enhancing the
> nagios classic ui anymore, i don't see the need to invest some spare
> time to backport feature patches from icinga to nagios anymore. i for
> myself only use icinga with classic ui, so call me happy.
>
> for the time being, i'd suggest migrating to OMD where you'll get the
> best of all worlds (nagios, icinga, shinken as well as guis supporting
> display_name).
>
> jm2c,
> michael
>
>>
>> I'm running Nagios® Core™ Version 3.3.1.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Ben
>>
>> [1] http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectdefinitions.html#host
>> [2] https://dev.icinga.org/issues/307
>>
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