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DESCR values from bb-hosts showing up in non-green view in snapshot

list David W David Gore
Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:44:46 +0000
Message-Id: <user-1f71e83f197f@xymon.invalid>

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From: Tom Georgoulias [mailto:user-6a0b8b0f0ae1@xymon.invalid] 
Went live an hour ago with a hobbit 4.3 snapshot on my prod network. Wish me luck!  ;)  For reference I'm using the snapshot I downloaded on
1/23/08 and is listed as version 4.3.0-0.20080103.

I did see one issue that I didn't catch in testing: systems listed the non-green view which have a DESCR tag in their bb-hosts entry are displayed using both the hostname and DESCR

For example, a server that used to look like this:

host1.example.com

now shows up like this:

host1.example.com (Dell server)

Obviously this is a cosmetic thing and not a big priority, but I wanted to report it nonetheless.

I'm still poking around to see what else needs attention and will share any other findings.

Tom
Tom,

You could try this setting:

hobbitserver.cfg:BBGENOPTS="--recentgifs --tooltips=never
--subpagecolumns=2"     # Standard options for bbgen.

man bbgen

I cannot rid myself of the descriptions fron the non-green view unless I
hack the code, not what I want to do.  It is cosmetic, but it also makes
it unusable for us, since the non-green view is our primary monitoring
page.  Having to continually scroll the screen for long descriptions is
a big annoyance. 
We run Red Hat Enterprise 4 x386.  Tom, if you manage to rid yourself of
the descriptions on the non-green view through some combination of
configuration changes please let me know?

~David