[Xymon] XYMWEBHIKEY question redux

[Tim McCloskey]

Jim,

Are you using NAME=blah, or NAME:blah?  Forgive me, I'm still on vers 4.2 (yeah, I know...) - for me it's NAME:blah which works fine.  I don't know if the syntax changed in more recent versions or if NAME= was always valid in adition to NAME:.


I use "NAME:some-hostname-other-than-the-one-reported-by-`hostname`-on-the-client" for some of the hosts I monitor.  For example:

1.2.3.4        foo.foo.foo     # NAME:foo 

If I look at the trends column of one of these hosts:

http://xymonserver/cgi-bin/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOST=foo.foo.foo&SERVICE=trends

I will see the URL includes the hostname as provided by the output of `hostname` on the client.  Actually, it is from the runclient.sh script MACHINEDOTS= var.
The display name on the normal page will show up as foo, do you have similar results?

Without seing the setup I can't say for sure what is wrong.  Have you changed any of the MACHINEDOTS vars manually, what is showing up in ghost clients, if anything?  Do you have the raw RRD data files from the client, if so, what is the directory name they are stored in?  hostname or what you set as NAME.

Afraid I can't offer too much but If it where me I would isolate one client and see what setting that client up in hosts with the actual name as reported by MACHINEDOTS.

Tim





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From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Henrik Størner [henrik at hswn.dk]
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 10:32 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] XYMWEBHIKEY question redux

On 14-06-2012 22:43, Jim Louis wrote:
> Basically I had no graphs available in the trends column. But now I
> have them. Doing some research on the no graphs in showing in trends
> (actually got a blank page) I found the suggestion to set the
> XYMWEBHIKEY to TRUE.

Sorry, but that doesn't make sense. XYMWEBHIKEY is a token used inside a
few of the web template files, where it ends up being replaced with the
hostname of the host being shown on e.g. a history status page.

> No, I don't know why they are showing up now. Maybe because I just
> moved my xymon installation to a new server?!?

Much more likely, you probably fixed the configuration issue you didn't
know you had by installing a new server.


Regards,
Henrik
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