Absolutely true. Also from the Xymon message format documentation:
http://xymon.sourceforge.net/xymon/help/manpages/man1/xymon.1.html
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"XYMON MESSAGE SYNTAX
This section lists the most commonly used messages in the Xymon protocol.
Each message must begin with one of the Xymon commands. Where a HOSTNAME is specified, it must have any dots in the hostname changed to commas if the Xymon FQDN setting is enabled (which is the default). So the host "www.foo.com", for example, would report as "www,foo,com”."
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I took a look at the clientlog test on my equipment, under the first [collector] stanza, for all of my equipment: it is FQDN on almost all of my Linux machines, and it is hostname-only on almost all of my Solaris machines.
On Jun 1, 2016, at 5:29 AM, Dirk Kastens <user-e4253f8fc63b@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Hi,
I think, the default is to use FQDN. It is defined in xymonserver.cfg:
# General settings
FQDN="TRUE" # Use fully-qualified hostnames internally. Keep it TRUE unless you know better.
So you should never have a FQDN in your hosts.cfg
So what if you have www.internal.example.com
<http://www.in.telstra.com>; and www.example.com
<http://www.example.com>? It seems to me that the primary attribute for
a hostname is for it to be unique. On the Internet, that generally
means FQDN.
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