I went the opposite way and used the group-except directive to hide things that already appear on combo tests. I did change the source code to allow group-except to take regular expressions though.

If anyone is interested I could share the code or provide it back to the maintainers.

Mark

From: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> On Behalf Of IO Support Sent: 26 March 2020 15:43 To: jbh at genesis-net.net; xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] Issue with NOCOLUMNS in default section of hosts.cfg

I take a slightly different approach. Instead of leaving all the defaults active and trying to hide certain columns, I use the 'group-only' option in my hosts.cfg file to only display the columns that I want to see for certain lists of hosts. This way I can statically add/remove columns as desired. It works great for lists of hosts that I'm only pinging or checking for http uptime. It also gives me an easy way to move the columns around to display in the order that I prefer. I also have my stuff sorted using the 'page' option which keeps things even more organized.

group-only ping|http|content|sslcert|ssh|ftp|uptime|disk|cpu|memory|svcs|procs|files|msgs|timediff|libs|updates|who|clientlog|info|graphs Servers

Feel free to email me for hosts.cfg samples.

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On 3/26/20 9:19 AM, James B Huber wrote:

This is doubtless a completely STUPID question.

Have been using Xymon since BB, then Hobbit days...recently upgraded to 4.3.30 and moved/replaced the main host it was running on.

To the point, I have everything working, but... on the main display, I have getting columns for "files" and "ports".

More to the point, previously this worked. I have an entry at the TOP of the hosts.cfg file that looks like this:

hosts.cfg file

.default. NOCOLUMNS:ports,files 199.33.251.50 joshua.judahnet.net # conn dns ntp bbd smtp ssh 199.33.251.52 ezekiel.judahnet.net # conn dns ntp smtp ssh

And it worked.. I have tried changing that line to .default. #NOCOLUMNS:ports,files OR 0.0.0.0. .default. #NOCOLUMNS:ports,files OR 0.0.0.0. .default. NOCOLUMNS:ports,files

None of them work...

I can append on the END of all the individual HOSTS lines "NOCOLUMNS:ports,files"... and that works...

What am I doing wrong with default section ?

Jim

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On Thu, 2020-03-26 at 16:47 +0100, mailinglist at tikklik.nl wrote:

Hello Jim,

0.0.0.0 .default. # NOCOLUMNS:procs,ports,clientlog,files ssldays=14 Is working for me on 4.3.30 I have it on top of the hosts.cfg file

Yes, likewise the format I have is different from those shown by the OP. Ours starts with: 0.0.0.0 .default. # NOCOLUMNS:bbd,...

Perhaps it's just the space between the '#' and 'NOCOLUMNS' that is required.

John

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> Namens James B Huber Verzonden: donderdag 26 maart 2020 16:19 Aan: xymon at xymon.com Onderwerp: [Xymon] Issue with NOCOLUMNS in default section of hosts.cfg

This is doubtless a completely STUPID question.

Have been using Xymon since BB, then Hobbit days...recently upgraded to 4.3.30 and moved/replaced the main host it was running on.

To the point, I have everything working, but... on the main display, I have getting columns for "files" and "ports".

More to the point, previously this worked. I have an entry at the TOP of the hosts.cfg file that looks like this:

hosts.cfg file

.default. NOCOLUMNS:ports,files 199.33.251.50 joshua.judahnet.net # conn dns ntp bbd smtp ssh 199.33.251.52 ezekiel.judahnet.net # conn dns ntp smtp ssh

And it worked.. I have tried changing that line to .default. #NOCOLUMNS:ports,files OR 0.0.0.0. .default. #NOCOLUMNS:ports,files OR 0.0.0.0. .default. NOCOLUMNS:ports,files

None of them work...

I can append on the END of all the individual HOSTS lines "NOCOLUMNS:ports,files"... and that works...

What am I doing wrong with default section ?

Jim

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