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So it would appear that the name of the client hostname comes into the
equation before xymonclient.cfg -- that file doesn't contain a
hostname, and the hostname is instead set in xymon.sh that runs the
server.
What I ended up doing is not running the client via the server anymore
and just running it separately, which is what I was doing before 4.3.x
because for whatever reason the server just failed to run the clients
on my machine under 4.2.x
In any case, if someone has a better solution, I'd be interested to
hear it. Basically I'm trying to run the client software on the server
via the client server but have a different value for MACHINEDOTS,
which is the client software hostname.
On 02/22/2013 12:03 PM, Novosielski, Ryan wrote:
I definitely agree, and know that I could probably fix this by manually setting the hostname in the client software... But I am reticent to do that if I don't understand why it is happening. Is this just how it works when you run the client via the server?
Where is the server name set?
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If you don't want to lose the history, use "rename" instead of "drop". But the core issue is probably that the client side is
still reporting as "xymon".
On 2013-02-22 8:11, Mike Burger wrote:
Hi, I run 4.3.10 and the client name for my server has always been the same as the server name (xymon). This is not the hostname of
the machine. The server machine is also listed elsewhere in
hosts.cfg with just the network tests under its actual hostname.
I've decided it would be better to have the client tests (cpu,
disk, etc.) under the host's real name as well and keep the xymon
stuff under the xymon name. Originally I had the actual hostname in
hosts.cfg in a CLIENT: tag. I've since removed that next to the
host name xymon and moved it to the real host name. However, even
after a restart, nothing has changed -- all client tests are still
kept up to date under hostname xymon. The client is launched by the
server in tasks.cfg as per usual. Any idea why this is happening?
Thanks.
Did you run run a xymon drop on the old host name? Have you
checked the config on the client to make sure it doesn't have the
wrong hostname manually set?
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