[xymon] RHEL5 client

[Malcolm Hunter]

> I installed the Xymon client on a Red Hat 5 server.  It is showing up in
> the Ghost report with the 127.0.0.1 IP address.  I don't see where in the
> configuration files to set the IP address and/or the host name for the
> client.  Can someone point me to the right place?
> 
> We run Hobbit on a Red Hat 4 server. If I should be running a different
> client for the RHEL5 box, I'd appreciate a link to where I can get it.

By default CentOS (and it sounds like RHEL too) has the hostname the same as localhost in /etc/hosts. I usually change this so that the hostname has its static IP address instead. This should also fix the Xymon client. You may also need to clear out any *localhost* files in ~xymon/client/tmp too.

Regards,

Malcolm


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