[Xymon] new feature request

[Frank]

     Resending to list.

    Aha!!  It works now. I added

'--tooltips=never'

to where you said.

On 12/14/20 10:52 AM, Torsten Richter wrote:
> resending to list
>
> 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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