Icinga DB Hosts/Services view: make "sort by" default value customizable

[danyalberchtoldlf]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

#1096

When viewing hosts/services status in Icinga DB, the objects are always sorted by severity.

Describe the solution you'd like

Could you please make the default value for "Sort by" customizable?

Describe alternatives you've considered

Source code adjustments.

Additional context

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[markuslf]

Would be nice to be able to configure the default sort order for

And for "sort by severity" it would be really helpful to do an "order by severity, displayname".

[nilmerg]

Somewhat related to #82, so out of scope for the time being, sorry.

[markuslf]

It doesn't need to be as fully featured as in #82. A good place to start would be to change the default sort order from 'by severity' to 'by severity, display name', which would help to maintain an overview of hosts with more than 20 services.

[408573]

I'm also surprised that a requested by one person is realized without a chance to opt for the previous behaviour.
There are different approaches to work with Icinga.
If I want to see problems, I go to "Host Problems" or "Service Problems" where it's sorted by "Severity".
In other views like "Hosts", "Services", Host Groups" and "Service Groups" in the "Overview" section, I expect it to be sorted by "Name".
Thanks for letting us choose how to sort the views.

[nilmerg]

You already see that there are competing opinions on this, which is why the OP is asking for a customization option. A legit desire. But one, that is far more complex to implement than what can currently be done.

Changing this without an customization option is not gonna work for everyone. The single request in #1096 was about that in the old monitoring module the problems list was also sorted by severity by default, which is indeed more useful for a problems list. Sorting by a second fact, i.e. time, is also a sane default. You see recent problems first. Again, it's a problems list.

If you really can't wait, you are free to configure your own menu section with your very own problems list. Sorted by severity and name. That'd be my suggestion for the time being.

[pselsa]

A good place to start would be to change the default sort order from 'by severity' to 'by severity, display name', which would help to maintain an overview of hosts with more than 20 services.

Yes, I agree. Would be a relatively simple change that most people should be happy with (until its configurable).