Hi Ray,

Thanks for the pointer. I was searching last night, but must have been to tired to see this thread.

I agree. I would like to see an option for xymongen to either turn off this behavior or revert back as well. It makes the page ugly and hard to use.

Scott

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Lee, Raymond <Raymond.Lee at qwest.com> wrote:

Hi Scott,

This new behavior also plagued us when we upgraded from Hobbit 4.2.0 to Xymon 4.3.2. I believe it affects more than just the nongreen.html page. I think it also affects the Critical Systems and Reports pages. Please see this thread for an explanation of the problem and the workaround:

http://lists.xymon.com/pipermail/xymon/2011-May/031555.html

I’d still like to see an option for xymongen to turn off this behavior or just revert back to the old behavior in a future release (hint hint ;)).

-Ray

*From:* xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] *On Behalf Of *Scott Pfister *Sent:* Monday, May 23, 2011 11:45 PM *To:* xymon at xymon.com *Subject:* [Xymon] 4.3.3 nongreen host.cfg DESCR tag issue

I've been testing the 4.3.3 version and stepped through an upgrade from version 4.2.3. I have noticed a problem with the nongreen page displaying both the name and the DESCR tag from the hosts.cfg. In the old version only the host name was displayed (no descr tag). The descr tag is only showing up on the nongreen page. It doesn't show up on any other pages. Any thoughts on how to make the nongreen page not show the DESCR tag from the hosts.cfg?

Thanks,

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Henrik,

Thanks for the quick repsonse. I applied the patch, verified the patch code was applied, remade and reinstalled. It doesn't appear to be working. The DESCR tag is still being picked up. I verified USEDESCRASCOMMENT="N" in xymonserver.cfg.

In htmllog.c I changed the static int usedescrascomment = 1; to 0 and make; make install. The DECR tag does not show up as expected. I wonder if the xgetenv isn't working as expected.

Scott

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 9:11 AM, <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:

On Tue, 24 May 2011 08:15:13 -0500, "Lee, Raymond" <Raymond.Lee at qwest.com> wrote:

...

I'd still like to see an option for xymongen to turn off this behavior or just revert back to the old behavior in a future release (hint hint ;)).

Could you try out this patch ? It should apply to all 4.3.x versions. Apply with

cd xymon-4.3.3 patch -p0 < /tmp/commentdisplay.diff

then run "make; make install"

After installing the new binaries, you can turn off the unwanted behaviour by adding

USEDESCRASCOMMENT="N"

in xymonserver.cfg .

Please let me know if this works OK.

Regards, Henrik