RE: {bb} removal of old hosts

["PAUL WILLIAMSON" <pwilliamson@mandtbank.com>]

>>> ron.bergeron@converge.com 05/11/05 8:56 AM >>>
> > I've removed two hosts from $BBHOME/etc/bb-hosts and find 
> > that it still shows up in alerts under 
>
> The bbrm command often doesn't remove everything that it needs to.

When?  It removes everything it needs to.  If the host sends more 
status information, that is not a problem with bbrm, but the client.
The only issue I know of is that the command doesn't remove 
any related $BBHOME/www/notes entries.  I changed bbrm 
to remove those, and I would imagine if another version 
of BB ever gets out from Quest, this change would be 
in that.

> 1) Make sure the host is no longer running the BB client agent.

Yep - causes most issues.

> 2) Stop the BB server.

Absolutely no need to do this.  I have a BBDISPLAY uptime 
of more than a year, and I remove hosts all the time.

> 3) Run this command from $BBHOME (assuming that the name 
> of the server is "hostname" and the BB server is a Unix machine):
> 
>  find . -name hostname\* -exec rm -Rf {} \;

That works unless your hostname is a substring of another 
hostname.  Then you've just removed those as well.

> 4) Restart the BB server.

If you chose to do #2, yes.

Paul

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