Customize Dashing - Show Host Displayname instead of Hostname

Visualization, Metrics & Reporting
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Hello,

In our Icinga installation, we use IP address as a Hostname when adding hosts, and as a result, we see IP addresses in the Dashing Problem widget.

How may we change code in order to show Displayname instead of Hostname inside Problem widget?

Thank you!

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Hi,

start your journey here.

You’ll need several things:

  • Fetch the attribute from the REST API into host objects. AFAIK this attribute is not implemented yet to keep the requests small enough.
  • Use the data provider inside the icinga2 job and replace name with display_name in the list generators
  • Keep in mind that display_name can be empty, so your code should provide a fallback to name in case

Cheers,
Michael