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Ghost-busting... how to locate a ghost client

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list Glauber Ribeiro · Mon, 20 Aug 2018 21:27:57 +0000 · 
I have a non-existent server which shows constantly in my “Ghost clients” report. I think there must be a test somewhere that’s reporting the wrong host name.

Is there anything I can do to find out where that message is coming from? The Ghost clients report tells me the sender is “127.0.0.1” (of course).

Thanks,

glauber

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list Paul Root · Mon, 20 Aug 2018 21:58:17 +0000 · 
So that would be the server is performing a test on the non-existent machine.

Look in tasks.cfg or tasks.d. Or maybe it’s a crontab.

The other thing you can do is put the non-existent machine into hosts.cfg and then eventually you will get the test to show up, so you know what it is that is running on that machine.
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Subject: [Xymon] Ghost-busting... how to locate a ghost client

I have a non-existent server which shows constantly in my “Ghost clients” report. I think there must be a test somewhere that’s reporting the wrong host name.

Is there anything I can do to find out where that message is coming from? The Ghost clients report tells me the sender is “127.0.0.1” (of course).

Thanks,

glauber

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list Glauber Ribeiro · Tue, 21 Aug 2018 13:31:21 +0000 · 
And it worked! Thank you.

g

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Subject: RE: Ghost-busting... how to locate a ghost client

That is an excellent idea, thanks!

g
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Subject: RE: Ghost-busting... how to locate a ghost client

So that would be the server is performing a test on the non-existent machine.

Look in tasks.cfg or tasks.d. Or maybe it’s a crontab.

The other thing you can do is put the non-existent machine into hosts.cfg and then eventually you will get the test to show up, so you know what it is that is running on that machine.

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Sent: Monday, August 20, 2018 4:28 PM
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Subject: [Xymon] Ghost-busting... how to locate a ghost client

I have a non-existent server which shows constantly in my “Ghost clients” report. I think there must be a test somewhere that’s reporting the wrong host name.

Is there anything I can do to find out where that message is coming from? The Ghost clients report tells me the sender is “127.0.0.1” (of course).

Thanks,

glauber

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