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.
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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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