[Xymon] Ghost client problems

[Steven Carr]

On all of our systems I force the client to use it's FQDN, in
/etc/sysconfig/xymon I configure the CLIENTHOSTNAME variable to be the FQDN
e.g. as part of our build script it runs:

sed -i "s/# CLIENTHOSTNAME=\"\"/CLIENTHOSTNAME=\"`hostname -f`\"/g"
/etc/sysconfig/xymon

Steve



On 23 February 2012 08:45, Pavel Traian <paveltraian at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I have added the short name to hosts.cfg otpproxy1 not
> otpproxy1.temenosgroup.com. On the Xymon page i have the conn, disk, cpu,
> procs... all the tests are active there(it means the server receives the
> client data report).
> But the client seems to send the data report using the FQDN also and the
> server sees it like ghost client.
> How can i do to prevent it.
> Regards,
> Traian.
>
>
>
> Simple stuff first, do you have the client listed in
> ~/server/etc/hosts.cfg ?
>
> A little clarification: ghost clients are generally clients that are
> sending data to the server, but the server is not configured to display
> them.
>
> --- On Wed, 2/22/12, Pavel Traian <paveltraian at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Pavel Traian <paveltraian at yahoo.com>
> > Subject: Ghost client problems
> > To: xymon at xymon.com
> > Date: Wednesday, February 22, 2012, 1:51 PM
> > Hi,
> > I have installed a xymon client on a CentOS 6 x64 server.
> > Everything looks good except the fact that even the Xymon
> > server receives data and its' page is OK(the client is there
> > diplayed with its' short name) i have the same client
> > displayed in Ghost Clients(this time with its' FQDN).
> > I have checked on the client and i have too many files in
> > xymon/client/tmp folder.
> > It looks something like this:
> >
> > -rw-rw-r-- 1 xymon xymon    41 Feb 22 13:17
> > logfetch.otpproxy1.cfg
> > -rw-rw-r-- 1 xymon xymon    41 Feb 22 13:17
> > logfetch.otpproxy1.status
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root  root  35787 Feb 22 13:17
> > msg.otpproxy1.temenosgroup.com.txt
> > -rw-rw-r-- 1 xymon xymon 37183 Feb 22 13:17
> > msg.otpproxy1.txt
> > -rw-rw-r-- 1 xymon xymon   246 Feb 22 13:17
> > xymon_vmstat.otpproxy1.2637
> > -rw-rw-r-- 1 xymon xymon   246 Feb 22 13:14
> > xymon_vmstat.otpproxy1.temenosgroup.com.2597
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root  root    246 Feb 22 13:17
> > xymon_vmstat.otpproxy1.temenosgroup.com.2681
> >
> > It seems like the client is started al least twice....
> > How can I set it right?
> > Regards,
> > Traian.
> >
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