There's no built in way to do something like this, since the architecture of xymon is to shuttle all the raw data up the stream for processing (and/or ignoring) by xymond and channel workers.
However, if you needed to do a one-off for a particularly odd box, edit xymonclient-${os}.sh and comment out the relevant shell command. Obviously, this means that that data won't be usable.
In trunk, and for the next major release, xymon will have a compression option, which might alleviate some of your bandwidth concern, at the expensive of minor cpu use (ps data compresses well).
HTH, -jc
Is there a way to completely turn off the collection of a particular monitor on a client so that it doesn't send the data? It looks like the client gathers all the information all the time, sends it to the server, and the server determines which data to display. If I'm trying to save bandwidth, can I tell the client to not gather procs data (which on my system is about 15k per message) and just not send it?
-- Michael Beatty
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