[hobbit] bb-hosts COMMENT Tag no longer working?

[White, Bruce]

Malcolm,

THANKS!  I am not very good at reading C code, let alone figuring out how all the modules and functions in Xymon work together.  This however is not what I want to hear.  I'd like the DESCR tag to just be for the populating the info page fields and the COMMENT tag for appearing on the screen.   The way older versions of hobbit worked.

Thanks again,
Bruce
 


 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Malcolm Hunter [mailto:malcolm.hunter at gmx.co.uk] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 10:56 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: RE: RE: RE: [hobbit] bb-hosts COMMENT Tag no longer working?

> Thanks for pointing out the tooltips --never option.  What I see is 
> the text following COMMENT tags in the bb-hosts file displayed on the 
> screen.  If a host has no COMMENT tag, but a DESCR tag, then the text in the DESCR tag
> is displayed on the screen.   This occurs no matter how the tooltips
> option is set, because on my second Xymon server, I see the DESCR tag 
> in the text box, if a COMMENT tag is not present.  Interestingly 
> enough, the fields on the info page are populated correctly from the 
> DESCR tag, with or without a COMMENT tag.  I hope that makes it more clear.

Thanks, that's much clearer.

This appears to be deliberate - line 483 of lib/htmllog.c was recently changed to:

 cmt = bbh_item(host, BBH_COMMENT); if (!cmt) cmt = bbh_item(host, BBH_DESCRIPTION);

So if there's no COMMENT, it uses DESCR instead.

Malcolm


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