John,

Hello,

Using Xymon 4.3.7 I have specified a '.default. entry in hosts.cfg which includes the NOCOLUMNS tag. The hosts.cfg man page says that per-host definitions will override the default ones. However, that doesn't seem to work with NOCOLUMNS.

Hosts.cfg contains:

========================= 0.0.0.0 .default. # NOCOLUMNS:files,memory,ports,info,trends noclear

141.163.141.163 server-1 # testip conn !ftp !smtp !telnet dns ntp bbd ssh swap memory ports

However, the memory and ports columns do not appear at all.

Does anyone know if this is a bug or the way things are supposed to work?

It's the way they are supposed to work. In your server-1 line 'memory ports' is probably not doing anything.

hosts.cfg allows tags against host names, but that is not a strict correspondence with columns, and does not override NOCOLUMNS:

The only way I could see that working would be to put a different NOCOLUMNS: on server-1 - e.g.

141.163.141.163 server-1 # testip conn !ftp !smtp !telnet dns ntp bbd ssh swap NOCOLUMNS:files,info,trends

I'm a bit puzzled as to why you'd want NOCOLUMNS:info,trends as a default

You can also use group-only and group-except to hide certain columns in some displays. Can be useful if you have hosts displayed on multiple pages for example.

David.

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