How to replace $HOSTNAME$ with $HOSTALIAS$ in Nagios web interface?

Question

System administration

Debian, nagios3, apache2.
I would like the alias of the node to appear in the nagios web panel instead of hostname, it is more informative. How can this be done?

Answer 1

define host{
  host_name       <alias>
  alias                 <long description>
  address            <ip/host_name>
}