XYMWEBHIKEY question redux 🔗 link

Le 2012-06-14 20:20, James Louis a écrit :

Not having received one reply on this question I am resending:

Hi Everyone,

In trying to resolve a trends graph issue it was stated to "set the
XYMWEBHIKEY" variable. I havent been able to find documentation on
what
 and where this is set at. I tried to set it to TRUE in
xymonserver.cfg but
that doesnt seem to do anything. If anyone could expand on what was
meant
by setting this value that would be great.

Thanks,

Jim

If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated!!

From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of wbeauchaine [user-ee69b0db7015@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 12:43 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] XYMWEBHIKEY question redux

Hi,

could you describe your "trends graph issue" ...

Regards,
Wilfrid


Le 2012-06-14 20:20, James Louis a écrit :

Not having received one reply on this question I am resending:

Hi Everyone,

In trying to resolve a trends graph issue it was stated to "set the
XYMWEBHIKEY" variable. I havent been able to find documentation on
what
 and where this is set at. I tried to set it to TRUE in
xymonserver.cfg but
that doesnt seem to do anything. If anyone could expand on what was
meant
by setting this value that would be great.

Thanks,

Jim

If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated!!

-----Original Message-----
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of wbeauchaine
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 2:43 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] XYMWEBHIKEY question redux

Hi,

could you describe your "trends graph issue" ...

Regards,
Wilfrid


Le 2012-06-14 20:20, James Louis a écrit :

Not having received one reply on this question I am resending:

Hi Everyone,

In trying to resolve a trends graph issue it was stated to "set the
XYMWEBHIKEY" variable. I havent been able to find documentation on
what  and where this is set at. I tried to set it to TRUE in
xymonserver.cfg but that doesnt seem to do anything. If anyone could
expand on what was meant by setting this value that would be great.

Thanks,

Jim

If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated!!

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.

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

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 12:32 AM, Henrik Størner <user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid> wrote:

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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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

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

-- 
To be is to do = Immanuel Kant
To do is to be = Descartes.
Do be do be do = Frank Sinatra

From: James Louis [user-518fefde45bd@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 9:52 AM
To: Tim McCloskey
Cc: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] XYMWEBHIKEY question redux

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

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=

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<mailto: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<mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com> [xymon-bounces at xymon.com<mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com>] On Behalf Of Henrik Størner [user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid<mailto:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid>]
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 10:32 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com<mailto: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


--
To be is to do = Immanuel Kant
To do is to be = Descartes.
Do be do be do = Frank Sinatra

From: Tim McCloskey
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 10:30 AM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: RE: [Xymon] XYMWEBHIKEY question redux

I don't have the proper version to test this.... (svcstatus).  Someone else will likely have the answer.

Good Luck.

From: James Louis [user-518fefde45bd@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 9:52 AM
To: Tim McCloskey
Cc: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] XYMWEBHIKEY question redux

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

10.200.0.75   xymon.peoplenetonline.com<http://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<http://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<mailto: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<mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com> [xymon-bounces at xymon.com<mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com>] On Behalf Of Henrik Størner [user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid<mailto:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid>]
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 10:32 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com<mailto: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


--
To be is to do = Immanuel Kant
To do is to be = Descartes.
Do be do be do = Frank Sinatra