On 7/18/2016 1:21 PM, Joshua Hunt wrote:
Lets take an example host from my hosts.cfg file, call it
"myhost.site.secure". When I look at my Xymon webpage, I want to the
header "testhost" instead of "myhost.site.secure" at the front of
the system line. I can get the name to appear correctly, but when I
do, all of my tests stop producing data.
I would use a line that looked like:
0.0.0.0 myhost.site.secure # NAME:testhost
I am assuming my client is reporting messages to "myhost.site.secure". The message-matching is done to the name in the second field. The "NAME" tag is used only when generating web-pages.
The "CLIENT" tag is used to match messages sent by a client under a name different from its hostname. It doesn't affect the way the host is displayed on the web page.
Here are the options I've tried:
NAME:testhost myhost.site.secure
If you tried to put a line in the hosts.cfg with that format, I would not expect it to work. The "NAME" tag goes _after_ the hash.
From the hosts.cfg man file:
The format of an entry in the hosts.cfg file is as follows:
IP-address hostname # tag1 tag2 ...
I use zeros for my IP-address because I assume myhost.site.secure is resolvable by DNS. If it isn't, you will need to provide the correct address and include the tag "TESTIP"
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