[xymon] how to "escape" a column name

Henrik Størner henrik at hswn.dk
Fri Jan 7 12:50:57 CET 2011


In <AANLkTimCqPkZmgM1ZC4ezwPoi+pBNhvuBt0eMKnV_px9 at mail.gmail.com> Joe Acquisto <joe.acquisto at gmail.com> writes:

>Is it possible to "escape" a status message, so as to make a status column
>heading appear on two lines?

>such as ~/bin/bb my_host "status 'uname -n'.MyColumn\nName green `date` `cat
>mytest`"


I don't think you can do that. If possible, it would involve writing the
column-name as HTML, i.e. with a "<br>" for the newline. But I wouldn't 
be surprised if some parts of Xymon choked on those angle brackets as
part of a status-name.


Regards,
Henrik




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