<div dir="ltr">Excellent! I would like to mention that I do have the IP address included in all my hosts, I just left it out while typing up my question. I reformatted to put the alias after the pound sign instead of before, and now it works. <br><br>As for the multiple hosts, I am planning on disabling all normally enabled network tests. I do not need them for the monitoring I'm doing. <br><br>Thank you everyone for your help!<div><br></div><div>Joshua</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 2:43 PM, Scot Kreienkamp <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Scot.Kreienkamp@la-z-boy.com" target="_blank">Scot.Kreienkamp@la-z-boy.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Don’t do that. That means the server will look for a client reporting in with that name instead of testhost. That’s not what you want as that will affect
alerting, analysis, etc. You want to use the name tag as another post has pointed out.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Also, as a side question: If I were to add the same host three times under 3 different aliases, with all the network tests disabled, would that cause any issues within Xymon?</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">The only consequence is Xymon will complain about multiple hosts entries. On the duplicates you need to put noconn or put prefer on one of the lines so it
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