On Aug 1, 2014, at 22:00, Ralph Mitchell <user-00a5e44c48c0@xymon.invalid> wrote:
You can put a ".default" entry in your hosts.cfg, with the testip tag. See the "DEFAULT HOST" notes down near the bottom of this man page:
https://www.xymon.com/help/manpages/man5/hosts.cfg.5.html
Thank you! I completely overlooked this. Another hidden gem in Xymon.
My original issue is not quite as I explained, but this will fix the problem nonetheless. (Long story short, I have to wait out an 86400 TTL until my error is corrected...)