To make a long story short, the server running xymon crashed (UPS failure).
Now I have several hosts which are showing purple status icons for all tests, but if you click on the purple icon, the subsequent page is green. Viewing the trend graphs shows that the host is reporting data, and the data/<host>/*.rrd files are updating as expected.
Viewing the info page for the host in question shows that the same test is apparently defined multiple (up to 50) times:
<< text cut at paste from info page, showing multiple instances of 'conn' test >> Status summary ServiceSinceDuration connMon Jun 08 08:11:44 200915 days, 03 hours, 12 minutes connMon Jun 22 17:35:35 20090 days, 17 hours, 48 minutes connMon Jun 22 17:35:35 20090 days, 17 hours, 48 minutes connMon Jun 22 17:35:35 20090 days, 17 hours, 48 minutes connMon Jun 22 17:35:35 20090 days, 17 hours, 48 minutes connMon Jun 22 17:35:35 20090 days, 17 hours, 48 minutes connMon Jun 22 17:35:35 20090 days, 17 hours, 48 minutes connMon Jun 22 17:35:35 20090 days, 17 hours, 48 minutes connMon Jun 22 17:35:35 20090 days, 17 hours, 48 minutes
can anyone shed some light on where to start with this? I'd rather not drop the host and then re-add it, since I need the history.
john burk