<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">On 28 May 2013 06:29, Siddesha Dodderi Hanumantharayappa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Siddesha.Hanumantharayappa@ness.com" target="_blank">Siddesha.Hanumantharayappa@ness.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">$ ~/server/bin/xymon 127.0.0.1 "drop uspvl3k153"</span></b></p>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div style>That should work.</div><div style> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Executed above command to remove all traces of a host, but getting below error:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">2013-05-27 15:07:22 Whoops ! Failed to send message (timeout)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">2013-05-27 15:07:22 -></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">2013-05-27 15:07:22 -> Recipient '127.0.0.1', timeout 15</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">2013-05-27 15:07:22 -> 1st line: 'drop <a href="http://uspvl3k153.rdigest.com" target="_blank">uspvl3k153.rdigest.com</a>'</span></p>
</blockquote></div><br>Are you running the command on the Xymon server? If so, it's unusual that you get a time-out trying to connect to localhost. If the Xymon daemon is running, you should get an instant connection. If it's not running, you should get an instant connection refused. A time-out is more typical of a filtered connection, such as when a Xymon client cannot connect to a Xymon server because of a firewall in the middle. But to localhost? I'm a bit puzzled by this. Are you running a host-based packet filter, such as netfilter, iptables, ipfw?</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style>Can you connect using telnet:</div><div class="gmail_extra" style><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style><font face="courier new, monospace">$ <b><font color="#cc0000">telnet 127.0.0.1 1984</font></b></font></div>
<div class="gmail_extra" style><font face="courier new, monospace">Trying 127.0.0.1...</font></div><div class="gmail_extra" style><font face="courier new, monospace">Connection to 127.0.0.1</font></div><div class="gmail_extra" style>
<font face="courier new, monospace">Escape character is '^]'.</font></div><div class="gmail_extra" style><font face="courier new, monospace" color="#cc0000"><b>^]</b></font></div><div class="gmail_extra" style><font face="courier new, monospace">telnet> <b><font color="#cc0000">quit</font></b></font></div>
<div class="gmail_extra" style><font face="courier new, monospace">$</font></div><div class="gmail_extra" style><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_extra" style>Cheers</div><div class="gmail_extra" style>
Jeremy</div></div>