Strange Client Behavior

The other way to do it would be to use the NAME: directive in hosts.cfg.
This way the internal name will stay the same and you won't have to change
your clients. If you change the main name in hosts.cfg, you will need to
use the RENAME command of the xymon program.

Thanks,
Larry Barber

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 9:57 AM, <user-e510f6c03e57@xymon.invalid> wrote:

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This is because your client is reporting as "hostname" and not as "
hostname.example.org".

Run your client with the --hostname=hostname.example.org option or add a
CLIENT:hostname.example.org tag to the hosts.cfg entry on the server.

*From:* xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] *On
Behalf Of *Joseph De Nicolo
*Sent:* 06 February 2013 15:45
*To:* xymon at xymon.com
*Subject:* [Xymon] Strange Client Behavior

Xymon users,

Once upon a time I had a xymon client called "hostname". In all the xymon
server config files(hosts.cfg, analysis.cfg, alerts.cfg) the client was
written as "hostname" in the configs when setting its properties and
behavior(alerts, warnings, ect..). Now I wish to change the way "hostname"
appears on the xymon webpage to "hostname.example.org".

Bear in mind this "hostname" has a xymon client install so I can receive
all standard and custom reports & scripts. After changing all the server
config files, keeping them constant but now replaced every instance of
"hostname" to "hostname.example.org" the reports are not showing up on
the webpage. I can still see icons and reports for conn, ssh, http, info..
but NOT the ones that are required by a client install(disk, cpu, memory,
procs, ports, etc...) all those reports disappeared after the name change.

XYmon server and client service restarts didn't help. I also hard rebooted
the xymon server and that didn't help either. If I were to change "
hostname.example.org" back to "hostname", all the reports and tests will
show up again! I'm confused because I changed the names of another server
and it was fine. So am I missing something stupid? Anybody have any ideas
or experience this before?

Appreciate all the responses, Thanks,
• *
*Joseph De Nicolo*
*Secure Database Administrator
• *Center for Complex Network Research <http://www.barabasilab.com>*
*Northeastern University*

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