XYMWEBHIKEY question redux

My mistake. I'm using NAME:blah.blah

10.200.0.75   xymon.peoplenetonline.com      # NAME:xymon bbd
http://xymon.peoplenetonline.com/

So my trends page when I ask for a change in Trends period returns this URL:

http://xymon.peoplenetonline.com/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?HOST=xymon&SERVICE=trends&backdays=2&backhours=&backmins=&backsecs=&FROMTIME=&TOTIME=

I can manually change HOST=xymon.peoplenetonline.com in the URL and it
returns correctly.

My understanding from previous searching is that HOST is using the short
name of the server because I'm using the NAME option in hosts.cfg. I'm
asking if there is a setting to ignore the NAME option when changing the
Trends period.

Hope that helps.

Thanks,

Jim

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Tim McCloskey <user-440820cc07d6@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Jim,

Are you using NAME=blah, or NAME:blah?  Forgive me, I'm still on vers 4.2
(yeah, I know...) - for me it's NAME:blah which works fine.  I don't know
if the syntax changed in more recent versions or if NAME= was always valid
in adition to NAME:.


I use
"NAME:some-hostname-other-than-the-one-reported-by-`hostname`-on-the-client"
for some of the hosts I monitor.  For example:

1.2.3.4        foo.foo.foo     # NAME:foo

If I look at the trends column of one of these hosts:

http://xymonserver/cgi-bin/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOST=foo.foo.foo&SERVICE=trends

I will see the URL includes the hostname as provided by the output of
`hostname` on the client.  Actually, it is from the runclient.sh script
MACHINEDOTS= var.
The display name on the normal page will show up as foo, do you have
similar results?

Without seing the setup I can't say for sure what is wrong.  Have you
changed any of the MACHINEDOTS vars manually, what is showing up in ghost
clients, if anything?  Do you have the raw RRD data files from the client,
if so, what is the directory name they are stored in?  hostname or what you
set as NAME.

Afraid I can't offer too much but If it where me I would isolate one
client and see what setting that client up in hosts with the actual name as
reported by MACHINEDOTS.

Tim


From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of
Henrik Størner [user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 10:32 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] XYMWEBHIKEY question redux

On 14-06-2012 22:43, Jim Louis wrote:

Basically I had no graphs available in the trends column. But now I
have them. Doing some research on the no graphs in showing in trends
(actually got a blank page) I found the suggestion to set the
XYMWEBHIKEY to TRUE.

Sorry, but that doesn't make sense. XYMWEBHIKEY is a token used inside a
few of the web template files, where it ends up being replaced with the
hostname of the host being shown on e.g. a history status page.

No, I don't know why they are showing up now. Maybe because I just
moved my xymon installation to a new server?!?

Much more likely, you probably fixed the configuration issue you didn't
know you had by installing a new server.


Regards,
Henrik

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