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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/03/14 15:04, Kris Springer wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’ve got 6 ghost clients listed on my
server webpage. I have a clean hosts.cfg file that definitely
does not contain any of the names in the ghost list. The
ghost names are from many months ago when I first setup the
server. I’ve since change the names. I’ve attempted to clear
the ghosts using the following commands but it doesn’t clear
anything. Buzzard is one of the hostnames in question.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">#cd
/usr/lib/xymon/server/bin</span><span
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Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">#xymon
127.0.0.1 “drop Buzzard”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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have a clue as to how to clear old ghosts and/or where to
find the pesky files that are causing it?</span></p>
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ghosts are there *because* you do not have them in your config file.
They are "generated" by clients reporting status with that name. You
should be able to determine where these reports are coming from
based on the names and/or source information on the ghost report. If
the client stops reporting, it will be removed from the ghost report
after 5 minutes (I assume this is actually the timeout value of the
status which is usually 5 minutes).<br>
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Worst case, you can firewall port 1984 to block the incoming status
reports, or use tcpdump to determine where they are coming from.<br>
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Hope this is useful/helpful.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Adam<br>
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