{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/librenms/librenms/issues/1000","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/librenms/librenms/issues/1000/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/librenms/librenms/issues/1000/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/librenms/librenms/issues/1000/events","html_url":"https://github.com/librenms/librenms/issues/1000","id":76288895,"number":1000,"title":"Display device's Description field instead of hostname or ip","user":{"login":"nicole212","id":6193312,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6193312?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicole212","html_url":"https://github.com/nicole212","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicole212/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicole212/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicole212/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicole212/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicole212/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicole212/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicole212/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicole212/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicole212/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/librenms/librenms/labels/Question","name":"Question","color":"cc317c"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":7,"created_at":"2015-05-14T08:51:56Z","updated_at":"2015-05-15T13:08:19Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Librenms uses device's hostname field or ip as it's main field. This field standing for the device appears in all the device-related tables. what my suggestion is that we can use the Description field instead of hostnem or ip. It's because that we can set a device's description message with  a easy-to-understanding text  freely in setting sheet. I think this may make a better user experience. :)"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/librenms/librenms/issues/comments/102392811","html_url":"https://github.com/librenms/librenms/issues/1000#issuecomment-102392811","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/librenms/librenms/issues/1000","id":102392811,"user":{"login":"laf","id":3941142,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3941142?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/laf","html_url":"https://github.com/laf","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/laf/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/laf/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/laf/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/laf/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/laf/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/laf/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/laf/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/laf/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/laf/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-05-15T13:08:19Z","updated_at":"2015-05-15T13:08:19Z","body":"@nicole212 It's not worthless if it's of use to people but I think something like this just may not be. One concern I'd have if someone did contribute the code to enable it via config.php to see devices by description would be having to support that going forward as more and more pages / features are added that display the hostname by default.\r\n\r\nIf you wrapped it into a callable function then that would possibly work but over all I'm not a huge fan of the idea I'm afraid :/"}}