Xymon conn icon shows white, rather than green

Or, Xymon needs to be told to use the IP address you have embedded in 
the hosts.cfg file. This is what the 'testip' directive does. By putting 
it as a .default. line (in the example) it applies to all subsequent 
lines. Alternatively, it could be added to each line.

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On 2/26/2014 7:28 AM, Root, Paul T wrote:

Ssh needs a place to look up the machine. It either needs to be in /etc/hosts or DNS.

-----Original Message-----
From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Peng, Kingston
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 5:45 AM
To: John Thurston; xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Xymon conn icon shows white, rather than green

My test shows if I only put the hostname and ip address on
~xymon/server/etc/hosts.cfg, then "ssh" test will show red.
Only after I put the same hostname and ip address on /etc/hosts, then
the "ssh" icon will show green.

-----Original Message-----
From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of John Thurston
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 9:00 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Xymon conn icon shows white, rather than green

On 2/24/2014 4:25 PM, Peng, Kingston wrote:

I didn't put anything on /etc/hosts.cfg.  When I said hosts.cfg, it is
/home/xymon/server/etc/hosts.cfg.

Sorry for the confusion. My fingers auto-corrected as they typed. I
don't understand why you are making any changes to /etc/hosts
... especially after seeing your hosts.cfg  If you have embedded short
hostnames and ip addresses in hosts.cfg, there is no need to dual-enter
the same information in /etc/hosts

Does your xymon behave any better if your hosts.cfg looks like:

# We are not going to use FQDNs or DNS. Use testip instead.
0.0.0.0		.default.	# testip
127.0.0.1	localhost	# bbd	http://localhost/
10.1.2.159	island-vm	# bbd	http://localhost/

# group-compress is a hold-over from BB. 'group' does the same thing.
group	Boomi
172.33.1.39	BOOMIAPP01	# ssh ntp
http://172.33.1.39:28080/connect/Interchange.html
172.33.1.38	BOOMITEST01	# ssh ntp
172.33.1.81	RAMPDEV		# ssh ntp

Is there anything in ~/data/hist/BOOMIAPP01.conn ?

If you insert --debug on the xymonnet line in tasks.cfg, does anything
interesting appear in the log file (named in that section)?