New installation - differing behavior for 4.2.3 compared to 4.2.2

[Root, Paul]

Hi all,
        I've been using xymon/hobbit for a few years now and am building a new system on new hardware, with xymon 4.2.3 on CentOS. I've got a few issues that are messing me up.

        The first two are things that are different from the old system, which was hobbit and then I upgraded to xymon 4.2.2 on Solaris 10 Sparc).


        1. Fully qualified domain names.
                In my old system, the majority of our machines are identified with just the hostname. There are a few that are fqdn. And on the web pages, those machines display the FQDN.  On the new system the domain name is truncated. We don't want that. We have it that way for a reason, and need it to be displayed.

                FQDN is TRUE on both old and new. I'm not seeing much else in hobbitserver.cfg that would relate. The way it's explained in the documentation, I don't think changing it to FALSE will do what I want, but I may be wrong.

        2. The proxy server is not proxying all tests. Things like comm, ntp, and dns tests are not forwarding. We have some machines that are not directly accessible to the primary server, and so the proxy has ntp, dns, http, etc in the comment field of bb-hosts. Those aren't in the main servers bb-hosts file.

        My new proxy and new main server are reversed from the old ones. That is, the new server is on the main network, where the old was in the private network. The proxies are also reversed. On the old system, the proxy handled conn, dns, ntp, etc just fine and they came up on the server.

        Again, I need those tests on the main server.


        3. The last is related to the proxy server and is new behavior. I'd really like to have my proxy server be a backup for the main server. If the main server goes down, it would see that and take over sending alerts. I do that today with a secondary server to the old hobbit server. It's just a simple script that moves hobbit-alerts.cfg around as needed.

        Anyway, is there a way to have the proxy server also run hobbitd? Maybe on a different port? I suppose I could bring up another virtual machine but, I don't really want to do that.

        That's all I got for now.

Thanks,
Paul.



Paul Root
Lead Internet Systems Eng
Network Services


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