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custom hostnames problem

list Jeremy Laidman
Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:21:46 +1000
Message-Id: <user-aeb6e4b7fa2d@xymon.invalid>

On 18 April 2013 23:59, deepak deore <user-7b03b2a1ee70@xymon.invalid> wrote:
I have xymon clients with the weird name, i tried adding CLIENT:name as
mentioned in http://lists.xymon.com/oldarchive/2005/07/msg00362.html, but
still the new name is not appearing.

10.x.x.x   diff-host-name-app01.example.com  # noconn nofiles nobbd
NOCOLUMNS:files CLASS:STG CLIENT:app01-stg

but the new hostname is not coming. I know we can use MACHINEDOTS but that
i dont want because for ping test we use custom script which fails if
hostname after 10.x.x.x is changes as per MACHINEDOTS variable.
The CLIENT option lets you specify an alias that a client can use, but that
doesn't rename the client name on the Xymon server.  Whatever is the first
entry after the IP address (before the has) will be used as the hostname in
Xymon pages.

If you want to change the display name, use NAME: instead.

J