[hobbit] DESCR values from bb-hosts showing up in non-green view in snapshot

[Gore, David W (David)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Georgoulias [mailto:tomg at mcclatchyinteractive.com] 
> 
> Went live an hour ago with a hobbit 4.3 snapshot on my prod network. 
> Wish me luck!  ;)  For reference I'm using the snapshot I 
> downloaded on
> 1/23/08 and is listed as version 4.3.0-0.20080103.
> 
> I did see one issue that I didn't catch in testing: systems 
> listed the non-green view which have a DESCR tag in their 
> bb-hosts entry are displayed using both the hostname and DESCR
> 
> For example, a server that used to look like this:
> 
> host1.example.com
> 
> now shows up like this:
> 
> host1.example.com (Dell server)
> 
> Obviously this is a cosmetic thing and not a big priority, 
> but I wanted to report it nonetheless.
> 
> I'm still poking around to see what else needs attention and 
> will share any other findings.
> 
> Tom
> 

Tom,

You could try this setting:

hobbitserver.cfg:BBGENOPTS="--recentgifs --tooltips=never
--subpagecolumns=2"     # Standard options for bbgen.

man bbgen

I cannot rid myself of the descriptions fron the non-green view unless I
hack the code, not what I want to do.  It is cosmetic, but it also makes
it unusable for us, since the non-green view is our primary monitoring
page.  Having to continually scroll the screen for long descriptions is
a big annoyance. 

We run Red Hat Enterprise 4 x386.  Tom, if you manage to rid yourself of
the descriptions on the non-green view through some combination of
configuration changes please let me know?

~David