[Xymon] BB to Xymon - "[machine].net stopped reporting (PURPLE)" alerts

Now I've completed the transition and Big Brother has been shut off everywhere. As a result for these 4 particular hosts that had BB restarted, now Xymon is complaining hourly with

Subject: Xymon [NNNNNNN] [machine].net stopped reporting (PURPLE)

messages containing the last "netstat -i" output it received.

I thought the raw data sent from a Xymon client already included "netstat -i" output, so I thought the server would just get that info from the clients now?

It does, but Xymon won't remove that old status automatically. You must explicitly drop the "net" status column to remove it, since it is no longer being updated. Run

xymon 127.0.0.1 "drop HOSTNAME net"

and the "net" column for that host will disappear, along with the alerts.

Regards, Henrik