[Xymon] xymon "hostinfo" does not honour tags set by `.default.`

On 10/29/2017 10:08 AM, Thomas Eckert wrote:

I found that the information returned by xymon 127.0.0.1 "hostinfo" does not honour tags by .default..

• snip - This makes hostinfo not a usable source for getting the monitoring configuration for hosts or prevents the use of .default..

I have confirmed this same behavior with xymon 4.3.26 on Solaris

It would be nice if it honored the .default. lines. If that isn't possible, the documentation for the "xymon hostinfo" command should be updated to reflect this limitation.

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