[Xymon] Renaming a test from UPPERCASE to NormalCase

[Betsy Schwartz]

I went nuts trying to do this once in the past. Some parts of xymon are
case-sensitive and other parts don't seem to be. I ended up totally
obliterating any trace of the test and then starting fresh.

On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 10:37 AM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>
wrote:

> If you stop Xymon, save a copy of the checkpoint file, then edit the file
> to change all the misspellings , that might do it.  I don't know where else
> it might be "remembered".  You might also need to rename and/or edit some
> history files.
>
> Ralph Mitchell
> On Feb 6, 2015 9:42 AM, "Becker Christian" <
> christian.becker at rhein-zeitung.net> wrote:
>
>>  Ralph,
>>
>>
>>
>> that’s what i’ve learned from that behaviour.
>>
>>
>>
>> But I’m wondering if it wouldn’t be possible to ->completely wipe out the
>> word<- in UPPERCASE out of my Xymon data?
>>
>> So that my script afterwards creates a Normalcase word?
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Christian
>>
>>
>>
>> *Christian Becker*
>> IT-Services
>>
>>
>>
>> Christian.Becker at rhein-zeitung.net
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>> *Von:* Ralph Mitchell [mailto:ralphmitchell at gmail.com]
>> *Gesendet:* Freitag, 6. Februar 2015 12:48
>> *An:* Becker Christian
>> *Cc:* John Thurston; xymon at xymon.com
>> *Betreff:* Re: AW: [Xymon] Renaming a test from UPPERCASE to NormalCase
>>
>>
>>
>> Well, yes, you can change the test name to a completely different word.
>> However, the first report with the new name defines the uppercase/lowercase
>> characteristics for that word.
>>
>> So, you can change the test name from DATANODE to dN, which is a
>> different word, but you won't subsequently be able to change dN to DN or dN
>> or Dn.
>>
>> Ralph Mitchell
>>
>> On Feb 6, 2015 2:40 AM, "Becker Christian" <
>> christian.becker at rhein-zeitung.net> wrote:
>>
>>  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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Christian
>>
>>
>>
>> *Christian Becker*
>> IT-Services
>>
>>
>>
>> Christian.Becker at rhein-zeitung.net
>>
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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>
>> 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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