<div dir="ltr"><div>@Ribeiro,</div><div><br>Thanks kindly for the reply. Please see my responses below.</div><div> </div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Maybe I’m confused, but what’s the point of using NOCOLUMMS for something that’s not one of the statuses that is sent by the client?</span></blockquote><div>I agree. I mentioned in my second post that I ran the "drop" statement per instructions. I've done this several time, but telnet keeps coming back. Hiding it using NOCOLUMNS is the only way to keep the page from going purple.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> If you want to omit telnet, simply don’t list it in hosts.cfg for the host.</span></blockquote><div>As aforementioned, we don't list in in hosts.cfg, we list # ssh instead. I'm not sure why it keeps coming back.</div><div> </div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> If you want to drop an existing column, look into “Tips and Tricks” under the Help menu, and navigate to “How do I delete a test status?”.<br></span></blockquote><div>As aforementioned, we did this. </div><div> </div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(31,73,125)"></span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Consolas;color:rgb(31,73,125)">NOCOLUMNS is for something that the client will continue to send, and you can’t turn off, but don’t want to display.</span></blockquote><div>Since the client is a switch, I'm not sure we have the ability to alter anything from the "send" side of the fence. Let me know if this assumption is incorrect.<br></div><div><br></div><div>@Carl,</div><div><br>I just saw your reply come in. I'll try your recommendations now.</div><div><br></div><div>-Tres</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr">- <a href="mailto:Tres.Finocchiaro@gmail.com" target="_blank">Tres.Finocchiaro@gmail.com</a></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Ribeiro, Glauber <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:glauber.ribeiro@experian.com" target="_blank">glauber.ribeiro@experian.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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list it in hosts.cfg for the host. If you want to drop an existing column, look into “Tips and Tricks” under the Help menu, and navigate to “How do I delete a test status?”.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Xymon [mailto:<a href="mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com" target="_blank">xymon-bounces@xymon.com</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Tres Finocchiaro<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 10, 2014 09:31<span class=""><br>
<b>To:</b> Carl Inglis<br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com" target="_blank">xymon@xymon.com</a><br>
</span><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Xymon] leaking memory, alerts.cfg problems<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div class="h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal">> <span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">The manpage says “</span><b>column</b> is one of <b>cpu</b>, <b>disk</b>, <b>files</b>, <b>memory</b>, <b>msgs</b>, <b>ports</b>, <b>procs</b>.”<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> –
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Here is the page normally:<br>
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And here is the page with "0.0.0.0 .default. # NOCOLUMNS:telnet" added.<br>
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