diff --git a/nodewatcher/files/lib/ffnw/nodewatcher/nodewatcher.sh b/nodewatcher/files/lib/ffnw/nodewatcher/nodewatcher.sh
index 87f4b1fe09156aedd234c034699c531b53f5f79c..128621766640994c4cbb1bc5ea3da89cb9e712c8 100644
--- a/nodewatcher/files/lib/ffnw/nodewatcher/nodewatcher.sh
+++ b/nodewatcher/files/lib/ffnw/nodewatcher/nodewatcher.sh
@@ -193,10 +193,6 @@ crawl() {
 
 	#write data to hxml file that provides the data on httpd
 	echo $DATA > $SCRIPT_DATA_FILE
-	#symlink nodewatcher-data in gluon-statuspage-docroot
-	if [ ! -h /lib/gluon/status-page/www/node.data ]; then
-		ln -s $SCRIPT_DATA_FILE /lib/gluon/status-page/www/node.data
-	fi
 }
 
 LANG=C