OK I figured it out. It works differently from hobbit 4.2. In hobbit 4.2 it would put the comment as an actual set of characters on the page as in:
Server_name (comment)
But in Xymon, it shows up as a "text box", if you hold the cursor over the server name. The new html generated by bbgen creates these COMMENT fields in the html as:
<span title="comment"> Server_name </span>
So you no longer see them all the time on the web page. The bb-hosts documentation appears to need an update because it says:
COMMENT:Host comment
Adds a small text after the hostname on the webpage.
......Bruce
Bruce White
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From: White, Bruce [mailto:user-58f975e8bf9d@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 2:47 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: RE: RE: [hobbit] bb-hosts COMMENT Tag no longer working?
I have it not working on two different RedHat ES 5.2 servers. I compiled and installed following the install doc.
......Bruce
Bruce White
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From: user-9c1ae820b621@xymon.invalid [mailto:user-9c1ae820b621@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 5:23 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: RE: RE: [hobbit] bb-hosts COMMENT Tag no longer working?
Not sure what you mean?
I installed the source and did the installation.
Thanks,
Tom Schmitt
Senior IT Staff - R&D
Salt Lake City, UT XXXXX
Phone (XXX) XXX-XXXX
Cell (XXX) XXX-XXXX
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-----Original Message-----
From: Malcolm Hunter [mailto:user-b3e590ffeb6d@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 3:32 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: RE: RE: [hobbit] bb-hosts COMMENT Tag no longer working?
I am running on CentOS 5.3
And how did you install Xymon?
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