[Xymon] XYMWEBHIKEY question redux

Fri Jun 15 22:49:31 CEST 2012

Well, I now have a test box with 4.3.7 :)  I guess it was about time....  Did not get to spend too much time today but was able to replicate the issue reported by Jim.  

Jim, you have the source code and the environment, you should be able to fully test the following.  The cookie value of host contains the (fqdn in this case).  

By using the token you asked about you should be able to get your trends to pass the correct host name to the trends/time selection gizmo. 

Just edit the live trends_form and replace the value as follows.

server/web/trends_form

     11        <FORM METHOD="GET" ACTION="&SCRIPT_NAME">
     12           <!--<INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="HOST" VALUE="&XYMWEBHOST">-->
     13           <INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="HOST" VALUE="&XYMWEBHIKEY">
     14           <INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="SERVICE" VALUE="&XYMWEBSVC">

Good Luck, 

Tim

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From: Tim McCloskey
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 10:30 AM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: RE: [Xymon] XYMWEBHIKEY question redux

I don't have the proper version to test this.... (svcstatus).  Someone else will likely have the answer.

Good Luck.

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From: James Louis [jglouisjr at gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 9:52 AM
To: Tim McCloskey
Cc: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] XYMWEBHIKEY question redux

My mistake. I'm using NAME:blah.blah

10.200.0.75   xymon.peoplenetonline.com<http://xymon.peoplenetonline.com>      # NAME:xymon bbd http://xymon.peoplenetonline.com/

So my trends page when I ask for a change in Trends period returns this URL:

http://xymon.peoplenetonline.com/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?HOST=xymon&SERVICE=trends&backdays=2&backhours=&backmins=&backsecs=&FROMTIME=&TOTIME=

I can manually change HOST=xymon.peoplenetonline.com<http://xymon.peoplenetonline.com> in the URL and it returns correctly.

My understanding from previous searching is that HOST is using the short name of the server because I'm using the NAME option in hosts.cfg. I'm asking if there is a setting to ignore the NAME option when changing the Trends period.

Hope that helps.

Thanks,

Jim

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Tim McCloskey <tm at freedom.com<mailto:tm at freedom.com>> wrote:
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<mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com> [xymon-bounces at xymon.com<mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com>] On Behalf Of Henrik Størner [henrik at hswn.dk<mailto:henrik at hswn.dk>]
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 10:32 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com<mailto: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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