[Xymon] new feature request

[Torsten Richter]

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On 14.12.2020 16:48, Torsten Richter wrote:
> I remember that I had to add '--tooltips=never' to the line
> XYMONGENOPTS=... in xymonserver.cfg to make it work.
> Otherwise the comment was only visible when hovering over the server name.
> 
> I had it working since 4.3.17 but I don't know if IE could be an issue here.
> 
> Just checked my local installation with XYmon 4.3.29 and it is also
> displayed next to the server name in IE (11).
> Edge should work as it is based on Chromium.
> 
> Regards,
> Torsten
> 
> On 14.12.2020 16:26, Frank wrote:
>>    Hi,
>>
>>     I checked the man page and what you say is "supposed" to work, however
>> I see no comment that I put in the hosts file on the display page. IE
>> does not
>> seem to work. I tried both with quotes and then no white spaces,,, without
>> quotes.
>>    I am using version 4.3.28
>>
>> On 12/14/20 9:43 AM, Torsten Richter wrote:
>>> Hi Frank,
>>>
>>> you might want to take a look at "COMMENT" which might already do what
>>> you want.
>>>
>>> A line in your hosts.cfg would then look like this:
>>>
>>> 208.145.18.16   frank.cronomagic.biz # COMMENT:"for_my_machine"
>>> NOCOLUMNS:files,inode,info
>>>
>>> and then your server would be displayed like this:
>>>
>>> frank.cronomagic.biz (for_my_machine) Test1 Test2 etc.
>>>
>>> HTH
>>> Torsten
>>>
>>> On 14.12.2020 15:30, Frank wrote:
>>>>      Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>>         I have a request for a new feature:
>>>>
>>>> On the hosts,cfg page, there should be a place to the right of the FQDN
>>>> for a description field.
>>>> This field should show up on the main xymon page.
>>>>
>>>> Example:
>>>>
>>>>         IP                      FQDN Description
>>>> 208.145.18.16   frank.cronomagic.biz    for_my_machine   #
>>>> NOCOLUMNS:files,inode,info
>>>>
>>>> And this should display on the main page.
>>>>
>>
> 

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