I've had incorrect IPs reported when there were invalid settings in DNS.
Possibly another place to look if your server is configured to use DNS.
- user-88678e65ced1@xymon.invalid
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Root, Paul T <user-76fdb6883669@xymon.invalid>
wrote:
This generally means that the xymon server is still performing a test on
this address.
Do you have any ext scripts or maybe cron scripts that still are running
to look at this machine.
What I generally do is add the machine back into the hosts.cfg file so it
will show up and tell me what test is the issue. Fix that and remove the
host again.
*From:* Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] *On Behalf Of *Robert
Herron
*Sent:* Wednesday, October 15, 2014 3:25 PM
*To:* xymon
*Subject:* [Xymon] Help tracking down ghost client
Xymon 4.3.17 on Oracle Linux 6
I have a ghost showing up on the my "Ghost Clients" report and I can't
figure out what's is happening. A quick search of the archive didn't turn
up anything similar.
On the Ghost Client report:
Hostname Sent from Candidate Report age
mail07.example.com 10.10.1.2 xymon.example.com 0:32
This "mail07" [g]hostname doesn't exist in my hosts.cfg. It was removed
when the host was decommissioned two months ago.
The "sent from" address is my Xymon server. The "report age" counts up to
just over 3 minutes, resets to 0, and starts incrementing again.
This [g]host was a net-only testing host -- CONN, SMTP, and HTTP. There
are references to the [g]hostname in analysis.cfg and alerts.cfg but those
shouldn't cause this. The "mail07" string does occur in the
~/server/tmp/xymond.chk file but it seems to be ghost report. The
xymond.chk line ends in "nGhost reports:\n 10.10.1.2 reported host
mail07.example.com\n|||0|0". No other file in ~/server/etc contains
"mail07".
I added "--debug" to the xymonnet's CMD line and to the
~/server/ext/xymonnet-again.sh but "mail07" doesn't show up in either log.
Any thoughts on where to look next?
Thanks.
Robert Herron
user-8b27ea4290da@xymon.invalid