Dashboard host group sorting gone in 2.0.2

[heaje]

I upgraded Zabbix to 2.0.2 today (from 2.0.0) and noticed an annoying (bug?) thing on the dashboard. The "System status", "Web monitoring" and "Host status" widgets are no longer sorted by Host Group name. Instead, it appears to be some kind of random sorting. This makes it aggravating to find things.

I'm not sure if this is a bug or what, but I spent a few minutes figuring out how to get the old sorting method back. Here's what I did:

in "include/blocks.inc.php":

Change the following code in the "make_system_status", "make_hoststat_summary", and "make_webmon_overview" functions from

foreach($groups as &$group) {
                $group['nodename'] = get_node_name_by_elid($group['groupid']);
        }
        unset($group);

        // we need natural sort
        $sortFields = array(
                array('field' => 'nodename', 'order' => ZBX_SORT_UP),
                array('field' => 'name', 'order' => ZBX_SORT_UP)
        );
CArrayHelper::sort($groups, $sortFields);

To this

/*foreach($groups as &$group) {
                $group['nodename'] = get_node_name_by_elid($group['groupid']);
        }
        unset($group);

        // we need natural sort
        $sortFields = array(
                array('field' => 'nodename', 'order' => ZBX_SORT_UP),
                array('field' => 'name', 'order' => ZBX_SORT_UP)
        );
CArrayHelper::sort($groups, $sortFields);*/
order_result($groups, 'name');

If this is not a bug, could we at least get some way to choose how the dashboard widgets are sorted so that hacking the code like this isn't required?

[richlv]

thanks for reporting - filed as https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBX-5396

[arbies]

Thanks for posting the fix, this was the first thing I noticed after upgrading from 1.8.10 to 2.0.2.

[cloudmafia]

Thanks for the quick fix