<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:small">Hi,</span><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">Thanks all for the comments/confirmations.</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">I find that I don't need to convert the dots in the hostname part to commas, I just push it as it is to xymon utility. Xymon will get testname after the last dot, regardless of the dots before.<br></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">As I just need this for the sake of better visualization and copy-paste for test names that have dots (IP's or hostnames), I guess one approach is to modify the source that produces the pages so that in the HTML the commas become dots.</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">Thanks again!</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 8:22 PM Ralph Mitchell <<a href="mailto:ralphmitchell@gmail.com">ralphmitchell@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg">The original BigBrother used just server name and test name, separated by a dot:<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"> server<dot>testname<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">When FQDN was introduced into BB, the parts of the fully-qualified hostname were comma-separated:<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div> server<comma>domain<comma>com<dot>testname<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div>I don't know how it deals with multiple dots in the testname.<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">Ralph Mitchell<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg">On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 4:07 PM, John Thurston <span dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><<a href="mailto:john.thurston@alaska.gov" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">john.thurston@alaska.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg"><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail_msg">On 3/20/2017 10:51 AM, Root, Paul T wrote:<br class="gmail_msg">
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Hosts can have dots in them. The default is that you give FQDN.<br class="gmail_msg">
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I can't see how the server would be able to parse the message. Is 'foo.bar.com.baz' a test named 'com.baz' for host 'foo.bar', or is it a test named 'bar.com.baz' for a host named 'foo'?<br class="gmail_msg">
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>From what I recall of my last read of the source, the parser assumes dot is the delimiter, and the last field is the test name. Everything to the left of that is the hostname. The above example would be parsed as a test named 'baz' for host '<a href="http://foo.bar.com" rel="noreferrer" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">foo.bar.com</a>'<span class="m_-4871794098657064431HOEnZb gmail_msg"><font color="#888888" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">
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