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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Yes, they need to be in the hosts.cfg file on the main server, otherwise, they would be ghosts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Put the noconn directive in the servers hosts.cfg file after the # for the proxied machines.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Paul Root - Engineer III<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> xymon-bounces@xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Ward, Martin<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 04, 2012 11:55 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'xymon@xymon.com'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xymon] Setting up a Xymon proxy server<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I am unable to find any documentation on the configuration of the hosts files when using xymonproxy, can you help?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I have a number of clients client that have the Xymon proxy server configured as their Xymon server in the xymonclient.cfg file:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">XYMSRV=”10.5.1.205”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">So they will send their status messages to the proxy server.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The proxy server only has the [xymond], [xymondproxy], [xymonclient] and [combostatus] sections configured (do I need xymonnet and xymonnetagain?), this seems sensible to me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The proxy server also has the clients configured in its hosts.cfg file since it needs to know who to poll for.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The question is, how do I then configure these clients in the main Xymon server? Do I have them in the hosts.cfg file there as well? If so how do I stop the main Xymon server from pinging them?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Also, given that these clients are in a group, how do I get them displayed as a group in the Xymon web pages?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I have gone through the xymonproxy and hosts.cfg man pages but to no avail, so am turning to you all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">|\/|artin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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