ID: 11427
Title: WATO: Improved performance on host lookup on various pages
Component: WATO
Level: 1
Class: New feature
Version: 2.0.0i1
Bigger installations (>200k services) tend to have a large WATO configuration with
thousands of folders and hosts.
Finding a host in these configuration took a considerable amount of time on some pages
<ul>
<li>Web API host calls, except add_host</li>
<li>Bulk discovery</li>
<li>Host diagnose</li>
<li>Fetching agent output</li>
<li>Service discovery</li>
<li>And some other pages, where the actual folder of the host is not
known/specified</li>
<li></li>
</ul>
To fix this problem, a folder lookup index has been introduced to improve the time taken
to find a hostname in the configuration.