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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Brilliant, my thanks Buchan and Paul for your assistance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I found that if I wanted to use a single hosts.cfg file as Buchan suggested then I had to create a NET tag for every entry and adjust it for those in the new
network. This was easily done by adding “NET:default” on to the .default. entry and setting XYMONNETWORK=”default” in the xymonserver.cfg file.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Buchan Milne [mailto:bgmilne@staff.telkomsa.net]
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<b>Sent:</b> 05 January 2012 09:17<br>
<b>To:</b> xymon@xymon.com<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Root, Paul; Ward, Martin<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Xymon] Setting up a Xymon proxy server<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","serif"">On Wednesday, 4 January 2012 20:42:06 Root, Paul wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","serif"">> Yes, they need to be in the hosts.cfg file on the main server, otherwise,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","serif"">> they would be ghosts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","serif"">> Put the noconn directive in the servers hosts.cfg file after the # for the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","serif"">> proxied machines.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","serif"">This approach will work, but the NET tag was specifically provided for this case, and would mean you
aren't forced to have diverging hosts.cfg files across your Xymon servers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","serif"">Devmon also respects the NET tag.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","serif"">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","serif"">Buchan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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