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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">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? If you want to omit telnet, simply don’t
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?”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">NOCOLUMNS is for something that the client will continue to send, and you can’t turn off, but don’t want to display.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">glauber<o:p></o:p></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:xymon-bounces@xymon.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Tres Finocchiaro<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 10, 2014 09:31<br>
<b>To:</b> Carl Inglis<br>
<b>Cc:</b> xymon@xymon.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Xymon] leaking memory, alerts.cfg problems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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"> –
it doesn’t mention “telnet” as an option to drop.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Well, then the manpage should be updated.<br>
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Here is the page normally:<br>
> <a href="http://i.imgur.com/8bKAzvg.png">http://i.imgur.com/8bKAzvg.png</a><br>
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And here is the page with "0.0.0.0 .default. # NOCOLUMNS:telnet" added.<br>
> <a href="http://i.imgur.com/0DYn78E.png">http://i.imgur.com/0DYn78E.png</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">To entertain the suggestion, I've commented out the .default. line too but still no alerts... I'm not sure where else to look.<o:p></o:p></p>
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