[hobbit] Drop test columns

[Adam Goryachev]

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Igor Cicimov wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have Hobbit 4.2.0 running on Debian box and was trying numerous times
> to drop the "apt" and "libs" columns from the columns display for couple
> of client hosts with no avail. The reason I would like to drop them is
> they go yellow after system upgrades and started to be annoing now after
> some time.
> 
> I have tried doing it according to hobbit documentation:
> 
> - drop the test using the bb command
> - use NOCOLUMNS statement in the bb-hosts file for each of the hosts to
> hide the columns
> 
> but the columns keep coming back after couple of minutes. So none of the
> above approaches work really.
> 
> Any idea why this is not working and what else can be done to remove the
> columns permanently? I have searched the forum but couldn't find
> appropriate answer apart from one stating config file hacking which I
> don't take as appropriate solution since this should be working
> functionality in Hobbit.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any answers and ones again thanks to everybody
> involved in this project for the great monitoring tool they have created :)

Basically, removing or dropping a column in hobbit is quite simple.
1) Reverse the steps you took to add the column
2) Issue the command to drop the column

Usually this is:
1) For a ext script where the column data is generated and sent by the
client you will need to remove the script from the clientlaunch.cfg on
the client.
   For a test generated by BBNET on the server, you would remove the tag
from the bb-hosts file for that host.

2) Run the command (something like)
bb 127.0.0.1 "drop machine column"
eg:
bb 127.0.0.1 "drop this.machine.com ftp"

Regards,
Adam
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