Hostgroup and Servicegroup Names below Displaynames :-(

mrdsam · August 9, 2024, 9:22am

~~Starting with icingadb 1.1.3,~~ The object names of service- and hostgroups are displayed underneath the display names. For us, this is a no-go because the object names consist of meaningless (to the user) numbers and shortcuts.

What do you think about it?

If I knew how to do it, I’d remove this new feature immediately. In my opinion things like that should be configurable. I don’t find any config options in documentation.

I would be happy for a hint how I can patch my installation as a workaround.

In general, it is a good feature to display the object names also, but it should be optional.

UPDATE: Initially, I claimed this behavior is since version 1.1.3. This is not true, see comments below. Nevertheless I’d appreciate a feature to toggle group object names. It would restore the behavior as it was in the monitoring module.

moreamazingnick · August 10, 2024, 8:42am

github.com

Icinga/icingadb-web/blob/334aaf848eeba3ca7efcf11a512377e540e9fa46/library/Icingadb/Widget/ItemTable/BaseServiceGroupItem.php#L65


      
          
                  return new HtmlElement(
                      'span',
                      Attributes::create(['class' => 'subject']),
                      Text::create($this->item->display_name)
                  );
              }
          
              protected function createCaption(): BaseHtmlElement
              {
                  return new HtmlElement('span', null, Text::create($this->item->name));
              }
          }

return new HtmlElement(‘span’);

Does that work for you?

The BaseHostGroupItem should be similar

mrdsam · August 12, 2024, 2:15pm

That works. Thank you so much!

nilmerg · August 13, 2024, 7:28am

This is not a new feature though. This is the case since the initial release. Would you mind sharing a screenshot of the previous behavior?

mrdsam · August 13, 2024, 8:54am

Hi nilmerg,
you are right, I only noticed the object names because, after upgrading and without restarting the browser session, the names appeared directly behind the display names, without any whitespace. This disappeared of course after a reload. I must have mentally masked out the object names all the time.

Additionally, I have the old monitoring-module running on a different server where the object names are not displayed. So maybe because of this I recognized the object names as “wrong”.

I’ll update my initial post accordingly.