[Xymon] Renaming a test from UPPERCASE to NormalCase

[Becker Christian]

I think that’s not 100% right, since i was able to rename this test from “DATANODE” to “DN”; so this was successful.
But after that, when my script was reporting again to the Xymon server, there was an additional column “DATANODE” again. So, that part matches your answer, that the next upcoming messages will result in the “old” column name.


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Christian

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Von: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] Im Auftrag von Ralph Mitchell
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 5. Februar 2015 18:24
An: John Thurston
Cc: xymon at xymon.com
Betreff: Re: [Xymon] Renaming a test from UPPERCASE to NormalCase


In my experience, it is next to impossible to rename a test column. Whatever it first shows up as, that's what is remembered. I guess subsequent reports are matched case-insensitively, so any other upper/lower case combination is mapped to that first record.

Or maybe things have changed since I last tried, but that's how I remember it. Rename was for hostnames only.

Ralph Mitchell
On Feb 5, 2015 11:48 AM, "John Thurston" <john.thurston at alaska.gov<mailto:john.thurston at alaska.gov>> wrote:
On 2/5/2015 6:52 AM, Becker Christian wrote:
All,

i want to rename a test column from UPPERCASE to NormalCase.

I tried this using the command:

xymon localhost “rename MYHOST DATANODE DataNode”

Unfortunately this doesn’t seem to work.

Did you try the ol' two-step?
“rename MYHOST DATANODE foo”
“rename MYHOST foo DataNode”

Is your test script reporting in as "DATANODE" or as "DataNode"?


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