Would you want to try the "NOCOLUMNS:trends" option in your hosts.cfg? The man page doesn't necessarily mention it for usage with trends, but it could work.
If you put this line at the top it will apply globally:
0.0.0.0 .default. # NOCOLUMNS:trends
-----Original Message-----
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of John Horne
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2012 11:28 AM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [Xymon] Why trends column always shown with alerts
Hello,
Using Xymon 4.3.7 the 'trends' column always seems to be shown on the
'Current non-green Systems' page whenever a client receives a red/yellow
status. I can sort of understand this if, for example, the CPU usage
suddenly gets very high. That causes a red status, and I guess since the
CPU usage is graphed on the 'trends' page so that column is shown as
well.
However, the 'trends' column also appears if some of our local tests
receive a red/yellow status. These tests are not graphed, and so don't
appear on the trends page.
Any way we can turn off the 'trends' column always appearing?
Thanks,
John.
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