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    On Tuesday, 12 December 2017, 10:15:50 GMT, Ian Diddams via Xymon <xymon at xymon.com> wrote:  
 
  Ive recently installed 4.3.28.

Ive copied over various files from the existing 4.2.3
I now notice that the main view and any sub pages all have what I would expect from the top level menu - Views/Reports/Administration/Help.  those menus all drop down as normal displaying sub categories below them

But if/when i then open a particular alert (any individual server's alert eg conn) I then get the top menu displayed all in text, with all the options visible also, but no format.  So what I see  is

Views:  Main view |  All non-green view |  Critical systems 
Reports:  Event log Report |  Top Changes |  Availability Report |  Snapshot Report |  Config Report |  Config Report (Critical) |  Metrics Report |  Ghost Clients |  Notification Report Acknowledgements 
Administration:  Find host |  Acknowledge alert |  Enable/disable |  Edit critical systems 
Help:  About Xymon |  Installing Xymon |  Configuring Monitoring |  Configuring Alerts |  Critical systems |  Known problems |  Tips and Tricks |  Custom graphs |  Xymon man-pages 

Anybody know how I get that back to the normal menu?  Im guessing its one of the files Ive copied from the "old" setup to the "new" ?  (ocntents of etc basically I suspect)
didds

On 12/11/2017 5:39 PM, Jimmy Aulestia wrote:

Hi,


I try to change the hostname in the hosts.cfg, but in the second time that srv02 is in the file, the  name "Server Xymon" don't change  in the web page.

I have Xymon 4.3.28.**

This is my hosts.cfg:


page INICIO <H5> INICIO </H5>
roup-except test
10.111.112.28 srv02 # NAME:"Server Xymon" prefer

page PRODUCCION <H5>PRODUCCION</H5>

subpage SG <H5> SG </H5>
subparent SG PPGA <H5> PPGA </H5>
subparent test <H5> test </H5>
group-only TEST1 <font size="+1">test</font>
10.111.112.28 srv02 # NAME:"test"

What is wrong?
Thanks.

The "NAME" directive is not doing what you think it is doing.

Each host is defined once in Xymon. It may appear on several lines, but
there is only _one_ entry for the host in the "database". Which line
Xymon uses depends on what is on the line. Look at the "PREFER"
directive for more information on that decision. You may change the NAME
of the host, but only one time.

Your host "srv02.foo.com" can be displayed as "Server Xymon", but it can
not be displayed elsewhere as "Test"

I've used "combo tests" to work around this limitation. If I had an
actual host named "foo.bar.com", for which I wanted both display names
"A" and "B", I'd do something like:

:: hosts.cfg ::
0.0.0.0  foo.bar.com            # name:A
0.0.0.0  foo.bar.com.local       # name:B testip noconn

:: combo.cfg ::
foo.bar.com.local.msgs = foo.bar.com.msgs


The "testip noconn" combination keeps xymonnet from trying to perform
name resolution for my fake hostname. The entry in combo.cfg populates
the msgs test for my fake hostname.


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John Thurston    XXX-XXX-XXXX
user-ce4d79d99bab@xymon.invalid
Department of Administration
State of Alaska

On 12/11/2017 5:39 PM, Jimmy Aulestia wrote:

Hi,


I try to change the hostname in the hosts.cfg, but in the second time
that srv02 is in the file, the  name "Server Xymon" don't change
in the web page.

I have Xymon 4.3.28.**

This is my hosts.cfg:


page INICIO <H5> INICIO </H5>
roup-except test
10.111.112.28 srv02 # NAME:"Server Xymon" prefer

page PRODUCCION <H5>PRODUCCION</H5>

subpage SG <H5> SG </H5>
subparent SG PPGA <H5> PPGA </H5>
subparent test <H5> test </H5>
group-only TEST1 <font size="+1">test</font>
10.111.112.28 srv02 # NAME:"test"

What is wrong?
Thanks.

ian
    On Tuesday, 12 December 2017, 11:09:50 GMT, Ian Diddams via Xymon <xymon at xymon.com> wrote:  
 
  Ive also checked - xymonmenu.cfg seems to be correct - what I have in place seems to be the same size as the pre "make install" file that is in my build directory, so copying it from elsewhere hasn't changed anything  (it won;t have been copied from 4.2.3 I have realised now cos it doesn't exist as that name in 4.2.3 and isn't one of the rename files in the upgrade guide   upgrade-to-430.txt
cheers
ian


    On Tuesday, 12 December 2017, 10:15:50 GMT, Ian Diddams via Xymon <xymon at xymon.com> wrote:  
 
  Ive recently installed 4.3.28.

Ive copied over various files from the existing 4.2.3
I now notice that the main view and any sub pages all have what I would expect from the top level menu - Views/Reports/Administration/Help.  those menus all drop down as normal displaying sub categories below them

But if/when i then open a particular alert (any individual server's alert eg conn) I then get the top menu displayed all in text, with all the options visible also, but no format.  So what I see  is

Views:  Main view |  All non-green view |  Critical systems 
Reports:  Event log Report |  Top Changes |  Availability Report |  Snapshot Report |  Config Report |  Config Report (Critical) |  Metrics Report |  Ghost Clients |  Notification Report Acknowledgements 
Administration:  Find host |  Acknowledge alert |  Enable/disable |  Edit critical systems 
Help:  About Xymon |  Installing Xymon |  Configuring Monitoring |  Configuring Alerts |  Critical systems |  Known problems |  Tips and Tricks |  Custom graphs |  Xymon man-pages 

Anybody know how I get that back to the normal menu?  Im guessing its one of the files Ive copied from the "old" setup to the "new" ?  (ocntents of etc basically I suspect)
didds