[Xymon] Strange Client Behavior

[Joseph De Nicolo]

Running the client with the --hostname= parameter worked like a charm.
Thanks a lot!
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*Joseph De Nicolo*
*Secure Database Administrator
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*Center for Complex Network Research <http://www.barabasilab.com>*
*Northeastern University*


On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Joseph De Nicolo <denicoloj at gmail.com>wrote:

> Yes "hostname" is in the ghosts clients page, but so is the other server
> that I changed the name of and that one is fine.
>
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> *Joseph De Nicolo*
> *Secure Database Administrator
> *
> *Center for Complex Network Research <http://www.barabasilab.com>*
> *Northeastern University*
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> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Carl Inglis <Carl.Inglis at rakon.com>wrote:
>
>>  Have you checked your Ghost Clients page? ****
>>
>> ** **
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>> If the hostname doesn’t match between what the server’s expecting and
>> what the client’s sending, then the reports will land on the Ghost Clients
>> page.****
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>> Hope that helps.****
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>> *From:* xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] *On
>> Behalf Of *Joseph De Nicolo
>> *Sent:* 06 February 2013 15:45
>> *To:* xymon at xymon.com
>> *Subject:* [Xymon] Strange Client Behavior****
>>
>> ** **
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>> Xymon users,
>>
>>
>> Once upon a time I had a xymon client called "hostname". In all the xymon
>> server config files(hosts.cfg, analysis.cfg, alerts.cfg) the client was
>> written as "hostname" in the configs when setting its properties and
>> behavior(alerts, warnings, ect..). Now I wish to change the way "hostname"
>> appears on the xymon webpage to "hostname.example.org".
>>
>> Bear in mind this "hostname" has a xymon client install so I can receive
>> all standard and custom reports & scripts. After changing all the server
>> config files, keeping them constant but now replaced every instance of
>> "hostname" to "hostname.example.org" the reports are not showing up on
>> the webpage. I can still see icons and reports for conn, ssh, http, info..
>> but NOT the ones that are required by a client install(disk, cpu, memory,
>> procs, ports, etc...) all those reports disappeared after the name change.
>>
>> XYmon server and client service restarts didn't help. I also hard
>> rebooted the xymon server and that didn't help either. If I were to change "
>> hostname.example.org" back to "hostname", all the reports and tests will
>> show up again! I'm confused because I changed the names of another server
>> and it was fine. So am I missing something stupid? Anybody have any ideas
>> or experience this before?
>>
>> Appreciate all the responses, Thanks,
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>>
>>  *Joseph De Nicolo*****
>>
>> *Secure Database Administrator*****
>>
>> *Center for Complex Network Research <http://www.barabasilab.com>*****
>>
>> *Northeastern University*****
>>
>> ****
>>
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