[Xymon] Renaming a test from UPPERCASE to NormalCase

Ralph Mitchell wrote:

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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I believe this is still the case. I went around a few buoys because our DB people had created a test called "Cluster" and then our Unix people created a test called "cluster", but the unix test appeared on the page as "Cluster". This distinction propagated though to analysis.cfg and alerts.cfg and graphs.cfg as well.

Andy