I tried both of the options you suggested and they do not work for me. I listed the contents of my configuration files in my previous post on this subject (listed again here). Both of these changes are in place but neither of them is having an effect.

Does this work for you? I'm using 4.2.

Benjamin

Server

bb-hosts (Should have an impact but doesn't)

page CLIENTS Hobbit Clients group-compress <H3><I>Hobbit Clients</I></H3> 142.78.43.171 opsappsl.lac-bac.gc.ca # NOCOLUMNS:msgs,ports,files,procs ctmoratst

client-local.cfg (I believe that commenting out all the lines should have an impact however this is not clear from the documentation)

All lines are commented out

hobbitlauch.cfg (Change should have an impact but doesn't)

The client back-end module. You need this if you are running the Hobbit client on any system.

[clientdata] ENVFILE /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg NEEDS hobbitd CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=client --log=$BBSERVERLOGS/clientdata.log hobbitd_client --no-clear-msgs --no-clear-files --no-clear-ports

Client

clientlaunch.cfg (Changes should have no impact)

[ctmoratst] ENVFILE /home/hobbit/client/etc/hobbitclient.cfg CMD /home/hobbit/client/ext/plugins/oracle/controlm_oracle_test.php LOGFILE /home/hobbit/client/logs/controlm_oracle_test.launch.log INTERVAL 5m

localclient.cfg (Change should have no impact)

DEFAULT # These are the built-in defaults. UP 2h LOAD 5.0 10.0 DISK * 90 95 MEMPHYS 100 101 MEMSWAP 50 80 MEMACT 90 97

hobbitclient-linux.sh (Changes did have an impact... ports and procs are no longer being reported)

#echo "[ports]"

Bug in RedHat's netstat spews annoying error messages.

#netstat -ant 2>/dev/null

#echo "[ps]" #ps -Aw -o pid,ppid,user,start,state,pri,pcpu,time,pmem,rsz,vsz,cmd

----- Original Message ---- From: Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> To: hobbit at hswn.dk Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 7:37:47 AM Subject: Re: [hobbit] drop test not sticking...

On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 01:08:59AM -0700, Benjamin Gagnon wrote:

Hi, I'm having a problem with dropping a host's test.

I perform the following command from the server (there are no output errors or errors in the error log)...

bb 127.0.0.1 "drop opsappsl.lac-bac.gc.ca ports"

Within a couple of minutes the ports column gets dropped and then a couple of minutes later the column reappears. So the drop command works ok but the settings do not stick.

The "ports" column re-appears because it is one of the columns generated from the client data. So after you drop it, it will be re-created the next time the client sends in an update.

If you want to remove the "ports" column because it is clear (white), then use the "NOCOLUMNS:ports" setting in bb-hosts, or change hobbitserver.cfg so hobbitd_client is launched with the --no-clear-ports option.

Regards, Henrik

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