Questions about Nagios quick search

[Jonas Meurer]

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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Looking forward to see your answers.

Any comments on those questions? Even if all my assumptions are right,
and Nagios doesn't support alias or extended IP-address search right
now, a quick confirmation would be great.

Kind regards,
 jonas


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