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With the number of machines we manage in AWS, that's not really an
option since that would essentially be a custom client for each
site. The hosts themselves already present themselves as a hostname
but it is not in DNS (for various reasons) and only the amazon
provided name is resolvable.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/13/2013 04:40 AM, deepak deore
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<div dir="ltr">For EC2 hosts, I changed MACHINEDOTS variable
in runclient.sh on xymon client.
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<div>MACHINEDOTS=<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://hostname.example.com">hostname.example.com</a><br>
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<div>On server side, no need to use CLIENT or NAME in hosts.cfg,
just use the name which is defined in client's MACHINEDOTS.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Galen
Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<div>Is it possible to key on the "NAME:" or "CLIENT:"
definition instead of HOST? Monitoring several systems
in EC2 and all the servers have hosts defined as
ec2-12-34-56-78.blah.blah.blah.<span class="HOEnZb"><font
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