[xymon] Lost history after rename of test column

[Joe Acquisto]

Turns out, I have outsmarted myself.   And I wallow, wallow, I tell you, in
my own smugness.

A while back,  I wanted to break test names into two lines and found that
<br/> seemed to do that.   Some one warned me that might break something
further on.   But, did I listen?  Yes, but there was no follow up, so I
bumbled on.

Well, I guess it does break something, as some testing indicates the <br/>
is what is causing this problem.   Ah, well, Monday starts a new week.

joe a.

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Henrik Størner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:

> In <AANLkTinTCuBeGhADq7vXPWFwzfmKdXpf1Bt5e2u-MhjS at mail.gmail.com> Joe
> Acquisto <joe.acquisto at gmail.com> writes:
>
> >Running Hobbit 4.2.0.   After rename of some custom tests and deleting the
> >old name, discovered that trying to view History tells me "cannot open
> >history file".   It appears there is no history file for the newly named
> >tests, that I can find.  Neither is there one for the old named tests,
> which
> >is probably due to my having deleted the test column.
>
> >I know there was history for the old named test.
>
> Not quite sure what you did, but the recommended method for renaming
> a test - and keeping the history - is
>
>   bb 127.0.0.1 "rename HOSTNAME oldtest newtest"
>
> That will rename the history files. It won't do the RRD file (since
> what RRD files belong to a test is rather difficult to determine),
> but you can rename those manually in the ~hobbit/data/rrd/HOSTNAME/
> directory.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
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