<div dir="ltr">Check your "Ghost Clients" report to see if the hostnames in hosts.cfg match the hostnames in the status messages.<div><br></div><div>The xymond status page indicates that you've received no enable or disable messages - possibly because they've been rejected by xymond, which I would expect to see in a log somewhere, such as xymond.log.</div><div><br></div><div>The enable/disable page is a CGI script. If it's having permissions problems or some other issue, you might see something show up in the Apache logs.</div><div><br></div><div>As I understand it, the enable/disable CGI binary gets its host list by loading in the hosts.cfg and any included files. The CGI binary runs as the Apache user. So the Apache user needs to have read permission on the hosts.cfg file and any included files and their containing directories. So check the permissions of any host files and ensure that the Apache user can read them. If this is the problem, I would expect a log message in the Apache log file indicating a permissions problem.</div><div><br></div><div>J</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 at 16:29, Mike Hatami <<a href="mailto:Mike.Hatami@ngs.nsw.edu.au">Mike.Hatami@ngs.nsw.edu.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Hi Jeremy,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Thanks for the reply.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I installed a fresh Xymon on a CentOs as per the following:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<li class="gmail-m_806247680810953930MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">CentOS Stream 8 Server<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="gmail-m_806247680810953930MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Xymon 4.3.30-1.el8.terabithia<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="gmail-m_806247680810953930MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Enable/Disable page only sees the Xymon Server not any other hosts. I have something about
100 or more hosts and about 50 of them have client/agent installed and they report<u></u><u></u></span></li><li class="gmail-m_806247680810953930MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0cm"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Another problem is that though clientlog is received and are green for the hosts only the
xymon server has CPU/disk/procs/etc columns not other hosts<u></u><u></u></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I checked all the httpd and xymon log as far as I could but cannot find anything. Xymond status page:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:rgb(216,216,191)">Wed Apr 28 16:21:42 2021 - xymon daemon up: 0 days, 01:24:59<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:black"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(216,216,191)">Version: 4.3.30-1.el8.terabithia<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:black"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(216,216,191)">Up since 28-Apr-2021 14:56:43 (0 days, 01:24:59)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:black"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(216,216,191)">Incoming messages : 122954<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:black"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(216,216,191)">- status : 118924<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:black"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(216,216,191)">- combodata : 0<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:black"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(216,216,191)">- combo : 0<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:black"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(216,216,191)">- summary : 0<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:black"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(216,216,191)">- clientsubmit : 0<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:black"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(216,216,191)">- clientconfig : 0<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:black"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(216,216,191)">- data : 1148<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:black"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(216,216,191)">- client : 849<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:black"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(216,216,191)">- enable : 0<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:black"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(216,216,191)">- xymondboard : 98<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:black"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(216,216,191)">- xymondlog : 22<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:black"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(216,216,191)">- rename : 0<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:black"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(216,216,191)">- dummy : 82<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:black"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(216,216,191)">- ping : 0<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:black"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(216,216,191)">- notify : 0<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:black"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(216,216,191)">- schedule : 12<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:black"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(216,216,191)">- download : 0<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:black"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(216,216,191)">- Timeouts : 0<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:black"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(216,216,191)">- Bogus/Unknown : 0<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:black"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(216,216,191)">Incoming messages/sec : 25 (average last 300 seconds)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:black"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(216,216,191)">status channel messages: 118945 (1 readers)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:black"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(216,216,191)">stachg channel messages: 1680 (1 readers)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:black"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(216,216,191)">page channel messages: 713 (1 readers)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:black"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(216,216,191)">data channel messages: 1148 (1 readers)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:black"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(216,216,191)">notes channel messages: 0 (0 readers)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:black"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(216,216,191)">enadis channel messages: 0 (0 readers)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:black"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(216,216,191)">client channel messages: 848 (1 readers)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:black"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(216,216,191)">clichg channel messages: 9 (1 readers)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:black"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(216,216,191)">user channel messages: 0 (0 readers)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:black"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(216,216,191)">backfeed messages : 0<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 28 April 2021 4:15 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Mike Hatami <<a href="mailto:Mike.Hatami@ngs.nsw.edu.au" target="_blank">Mike.Hatami@ngs.nsw.edu.au</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com" target="_blank">xymon@xymon.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Xymon] findhost + enadis not working after in-place upgrade<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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