[dev.icinga.com #7281] Enhance the default search behavior

[icinga-migration]

This issue has been migrated from Redmine: https://dev.icinga.com/issues/7281

Created by aledermueller on 2014-09-19 13:24:02 +00:00

Assignee: (none)
Status: New
Target Version: (none)
Last Update: 2015-11-09 10:30:02 +00:00 (in Redmine)

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Hi,

If i type the string "icing memory", i want to see every service where "icing" and "memory" occur in any of the fields (Hosts and Services (and perhaps hostgroups, contactgroups....)). To make it more clear, with this query i want to find all "memory" services on any host with "icing" in the name and i don't want to any complex string like "hostname:icing AND servicename:memory". Sure this will find any Service with icing and memory in the name, too, but i think this what users expect.

Why this is better?

• less to type
• quicker filtering (narrowing down the results)
• filtering for hostnames and services names is possible
• it allows to search for a hostname and select multiple services of this host and i could perform actions on them (this would resolve ticket #7280, too)

Why the actual solution is worse?

• service names with many occurrences could not be narrowed down to a host (e.g. memory will have n occurrences, n = #hosts)
• more to type

I think this is a real enhancement for the usability, but sure, this is much more complex to implement.
I think this is a behavior users really need, and with a fast search this will be really cool
I am used to this kind of search from other applications and i curse every time when i try to use this way in icinga web.
I think this is a really importing thing for the usability.... let's argue....

Thoughts?

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Parent Task: #9479

[icinga-migration]

Updated by elippmann on 2015-03-31 09:33:09 +00:00

• Category set to Monitoring
• Target Version set to Backlog

[icinga-migration]

Updated by elippmann on 2015-11-09 10:30:02 +00:00

• Target Version deleted Backlog
• Parent Id set to 9479

[nilmerg]

Will be part of #4094. More or less.