On 06-01-2012 06:31, bb4 at richter-it.net wrote:

Good morning everyone,

I currently have the problem that someone created a test for a Windows client that he now wants to have dropped.

But the testname is not only 'test' but 'd:\\cygwin\\home\\USER\\monitor\\test' and XYmon refuses to drop this test.

I also tried to escape the backslashes and the colon with no luck.

Any ideas how I can get rid of this mess.

Indeed - I just tried this, and it won't drop the test. I'll have to look into that.

Meanwhile, I can think of two solutions:

1. Drop the host, that will remove all of the tests. It will also remove the history-logs and RRD files, so you might want to save them first and then copy them back in (it's ok to just rename the files and directories in hist / histlogs / rrd and then rename them back).

2. Shutdown Xymon, edit the tmp/xymond.chk file (it's a text file) and delete the line with this status.

Regards, Henrik