Hello,
I ended up with two ssh tests in my xymon main page: ssh and ssh2. This isn't a big problem except it's redundant. What I *really* wanted was to test that ssh2 is running but ssh1 is not. I think that's accomplished with a combo test but I haven't configured one of those yet.
But in the meantime when I got rid of ssh from the hosts.cfg file and ran: <PATH>/xymon 127.0.0.1 "drop HOSTNAME ssh"
I got a full purple ssh column. I found the hist and histlogs directories with many ssh subdirectories (which I thought the 'drop' should've cleared) and recursively removed all of the ssh directories. Still as purple as Barney.
I know I've handled this problem a lifetime ago while using BigBrother, and what I did today feels familiar, but I'm missing something.
I finally had to put ssh back into the hosts.cfg file when management noticed all the purple indicators and got a bit anxious.
What did I do wrong?
Walter R.