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Hey all,

So I believe this is a simpler problem, however, I'm struggling to fix it
even after reading through the man pages.

Lets take an example host from my hosts.cfg file, call it
"myhost.site.secure". When I look at my Xymon webpage, I want to the header
"testhost" instead of "myhost.site.secure" at the front of the system line.
I can get the name to appear correctly, but when I do, all of my tests stop
producing data. Here are the options I've tried:

NAME:testhost myhost.site.secure
CLIENT:testhost myhost.site.secure
testhost:myhost.site.secure
testhost myhost.site.secure

All of them run into the same problem of data no longer showing up. Anyone
have any idea why this is happening?

Also, as a side question: If I were to add the same host three times under
3 different aliases, with all the network tests disabled, would that cause
any issues within Xymon?

Cheers all,
Joshua

On Tue, 19 Jul 2016, 07:22 Joshua Hunt <user-826c29d13219@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Try something like:

10.1.2.3 testhost # CLIENT:my host.site.secure

Also, as a side question: If I were to add the same host three times under

I don't think so.

J

On 7/18/2016 1:21 PM, Joshua Hunt wrote:

I would use a line that looked like:

0.0.0.0   myhost.site.secure   # NAME:testhost

I am assuming my client is reporting messages to "myhost.site.secure". The message-matching is done to the name in the second field. The "NAME" tag is used only when generating web-pages.

The "CLIENT" tag is used to match messages sent by a client under a name different from its hostname. It doesn't affect the way the host is displayed on the web page.

Here are the options I've tried:

NAME:testhost myhost.site.secure

If you tried to put a line in the hosts.cfg with that format, I would not expect it to work. The "NAME" tag goes _after_ the hash.

 From the hosts.cfg man file:

The format of an entry in the hosts.cfg file is as follows:
   IP-address hostname # tag1 tag2 ...

I use zeros for my IP-address because I assume myhost.site.secure is resolvable by DNS. If it isn't, you will need to provide the correct address and include the tag "TESTIP"

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Try something like:

10.1.2.3 testhost # CLIENT:my host.site.secure

Don’t do that.  That means the server will look for a client reporting in with that name instead of testhost.  That’s not what you want as that will affect alerting, analysis, etc.  You want to use the name tag as another post has pointed out.


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Also, as a side question: If I were to add the same host three times under 3 different aliases, with all the network tests disabled, would that cause any issues within Xymon?

I don't think so.

The only consequence is Xymon will complain about multiple hosts entries.  On the duplicates you need to put noconn or put prefer on one of the lines so it knows which of the duplicate lines to prefer for test configuration.

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Excellent! I would like to mention that I do have the IP address included
in all my hosts, I just left it out while typing up my question. I
reformatted to put the alias after the pound sign instead of before, and
now it works.

As for the multiple hosts, I am planning on disabling all normally enabled
network tests. I do not need them for the monitoring I'm doing.

Thank you everyone for your help!

Joshua

On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 2:43 PM, Scot Kreienkamp <

user-9678697f1438@xymon.invalid> wrote:

On 7/18/2016 1:43 PM, Scot Kreienkamp wrote:

Ermmm. Not exactly.

Take this example line from hosts.cfg:

   0.0.0.0   foo.com   # CLIENT:foo NAME:bar

The host will be displayed (on the web page) on a line leading with the name "bar" rather than the expected "foo.com". Messages from clients "foo.com" OR "foo" will be matched to this host and displayed on its line.

CLIENT does not define an "instead of" relationship, rather an "in addition to" relationship.

Our most common use for this tag is the retirement of an old application. The old server was named "foo", but the new server is named something else. There may have been application-specific tests performed and reported to Xymon under the client name "foo". Rather than hunt down all the old scripts, 'tis simpler to just say "If you get a message for "foo", please include its results here."

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