[Xymon] drop multiple hosts with wildcard

[Kris Springer]

Yes, that's how I remove data from time to time, but I was hoping there 
would be a report that displays via the webpage, similar to the ghostlist.sh

Kris Springer


On 1/22/19 11:38 AM, Root, Paul T wrote:
>
> Go to your hostdata directory. It will have a directory for each 
> machine. You can rm -rf Cam* there.
>
> Could be more in hist and rrd
>
> *From:*Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> *On Behalf Of *Kris Springer
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 22, 2019 12:18 PM
> *Cc:* Xymon MailingList <xymon at xymon.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] drop multiple hosts with wildcard
>
> Ok, let me ask the question a little different way.  Is there a way to 
> view a list of old hostnames that are not listed in the hosts.cfg file 
> but the server still has old logs stored?
>
>
> Kris Springer
>
> On 1/22/19 11:05 AM, Galen Johnson wrote:
>
>     probably need to use a quick command line 'for' loop.  Something
>     like:
>
>     for Host in Cam{1..12}; do
>
>     ./xymon 127.0.0.1 "drop $Host"
>
>     done
>
>     You also want to remove the other history info as well but I'd
>     have to go find that.
>
>     =G=
>
>     On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 12:57 PM Kris Springer
>     <kspringer at innovateteam.com <mailto:kspringer at innovateteam.com>>
>     wrote:
>
>         Is there a way to drop all host data for multiple hosts using a
>         wildcard?  I know how to drop a single host and erase it's
>         data, but I
>         have a long list of IP Cameras that I changed in my hosts file
>         and
>         instead of dropping each individual hostname I'd like to drop
>         all hosts
>         that start with 'Cam'.  I attempted this but it didn't remove
>         anything.
>
>         ./xymon 127.0.0.1 "drop Cam*"
>
>         -- 
>
>         Kris Springer
>
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