[Xymon] Strange Client Behavior

[Joseph De Nicolo]

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
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*Center for Complex Network Research <http://www.barabasilab.com>*
*Northeastern University*


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*****
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> *Secure Database Administrator*****
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> *Center for Complex Network Research <http://www.barabasilab.com>*****
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