Werk #19970: Event Console: find the events of a host whose messages arrive with an IP address
| Component | Event Console | ||||||
| Title | Event Console: find the events of a host whose messages arrive with an IP address | ||||||
| Date | Aug 28, 2026 | ||||||
| Level | Trivial Change | ||||||
| Class | Bug Fix | ||||||
| Compatibility | Compatible - no manual interaction needed | ||||||
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The Event Console views "Events of host" and "Event history of host" listed no events for a host, even while "Recent event history" kept showing events for that same host.
Every event carries two host names: the name its message arrived with, and the name of the monitored host that Checkmk matched it to. A device that sends SNMP traps is often known only by its IP address, so its messages arrive with an address where the monitoring has a name. Both views searched only the name the message arrived with, so they matched nothing.
Both views now search either name, and so does the filter "Host name of event (exact match)". This changes how the views search, not how the Event Console stores events, so events already in the history appear as well.
Searching the event history by host name now takes longer on sites with a large history: to check both names, the Event Console must read every history entry instead of skipping most of them unread.