Ability to evaluate dynamic custom var values on demand

[icinga-migration]

This issue has been migrated from Redmine: https://dev.icinga.com/issues/13083

Created by tontonitch on 2016-11-08 16:06:44 +00:00

Hi,

Looking at how the custom variables are showed in Icingaweb2, it may be interesting to make it more human readable.
Indeed:

• for dynamic values based on functions, it is only printed "Object of type 'Function' and I would expect the current value instead/in addition
• for hashes, it is printed as hashes, so understandable for IT persons but not user friendly

Attached a screenshot as an example.

Best regards,
Yannick

[icinga-migration]

Updated by jmeyer on 2016-11-09 07:45:28 +00:00

Hi,

thanks for your suggestion. This is indeed something which could be improved a lot and you've brought me to the idea that we may provide a button (or something similar) to let the user evaluate what the current value is. But this requires that the command transport for the given host/service is an Icinga 2 API transport, as there's no other way to retrieve this value from.

Anyway, we'll consider this for a future release. :)

Best regards,
Johannes

[icinga-migration]

Updated by tontonitch on 2016-11-09 14:48:05 +00:00

Great! Thanks for taking into account the suggestion.
I don't know if also fir hashes / arrays the way it is showed in icingaweb2 could be enhanced.

Cheers,
Yannick

[AurelienFo]

Did you find a solution for this point?

[nilmerg]

No, this suggestion didn't made it yet. Chances are also rather low at this stage, at least for the monitoring module. Though, please add a comment regarding this to Icinga/icingadb-web#117, as it falls into the same topic and there others already showed their interest.