Sounds like your "drop" command did not work. You might try it again.
As a "cheap fix" you could create an alert rule for these hosts that
does nothing -- that *might* work.
From: Larry Barber [mailto:user-6ef9c2864140@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 11:40 AM
To: hobbit
Subject: [hobbit] alerts won't stop
I have removed some machines from hobbit, taken all mention of
them from the configuration files and issued the "drop" command using
bb. I am still getting notified of their "purple" status every day, and
it has been several weeks since I removed them from Hobbit. How can I
stop these alerts from being generated?
Thanks,
Larry Barber