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Werk #2326: Allow relating Event Console hosts to monitoring hosts now also by alias

Component Event Console
Title Allow relating Event Console hosts to monitoring hosts now also by alias
Date Jun 9, 2015
Level Trivial Change
Class New Feature
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed
Checkmk versions & editions
1.2.7i2 Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate MT

In the view of the Event Console events in the GUI Check_MK tries to match the hosts of the events with the hosts in the monitoring (if they are known) by either the host name or the IP address. From now on also the hosts' aliases are being checked.

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