[Xymon] Renaming a test from UPPERCASE to NormalCase

[Henrik Størner]

Den 2015-02-09 12:51, Ralph Mitchell skrev:
> The checkpoint file saves the state of everything. Xymon writes to it
> occasionally and loads it on startup. I think it also saves state 
> when
> it shuts down.  Thats why you need to shut down Xymon before editing
> the checkpoint file.
>
>> But what can i say? I’ve made a copy of the xymond.chk, after that
>> I’ve deleted out all the UPPERCASE entries of these tests. After
>> restarting Xymon, the tests are still present in UPPERCASE.

Xymon is case insensitive in test- and hostnames, but it will preserve 
the case that it learns about first. So if you *delete* the tests that 
are uppercase, then it will pick up the spelling that is used by the 
first test that is reported by a client. On the other hand, if you 
*modify* the entries in the checkpoint file, then it will preserve the 
case that you have in the checkpoint file.

And yes, you must shutdown xymon when editing the checkpoint file. It 
really isn't meant to be edited :-)

I am not entirely sure if you will lose the history for those tests 
that get renamed. History is saved in directories and files, and the 
filenames are case-sensitive - so you may need to rename those 
directories by hand if you want to keep the history.


Regards,
Henrik