[xymon] Lost history after rename of test column

[Joe Acquisto]

I did a delete of the oldtest name.  Not knowing of the rename.    I guess
the problem is that the old test rrd files were also deleted.  And now,
there are none.    I can live with the lost history, but would like to start
a new history file for each test.

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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