[Xymon] Xymon conn icon shows white, rather than green

[John Thurston]

Or, Xymon needs to be told to use the IP address you have embedded in 
the hosts.cfg file. This is what the 'testip' directive does. By putting 
it as a .default. line (in the example) it applies to all subsequent 
lines. Alternatively, it could be added to each line.

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On 2/26/2014 7:28 AM, Root, Paul T wrote:
> Ssh needs a place to look up the machine. It either needs to be in /etc/hosts or DNS.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Peng, Kingston
> Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 5:45 AM
> To: John Thurston; xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Xymon conn icon shows white, rather than green
>
> My test shows if I only put the hostname and ip address on
> ~xymon/server/etc/hosts.cfg, then "ssh" test will show red.
> Only after I put the same hostname and ip address on /etc/hosts, then
> the "ssh" icon will show green.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of John Thurston
> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 9:00 PM
> To: xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Xymon conn icon shows white, rather than green
>
> On 2/24/2014 4:25 PM, Peng, Kingston wrote:
>> I didn't put anything on /etc/hosts.cfg.  When I said hosts.cfg, it is
>> /home/xymon/server/etc/hosts.cfg.
>
> Sorry for the confusion. My fingers auto-corrected as they typed. I
> don't understand why you are making any changes to /etc/hosts
> ... especially after seeing your hosts.cfg  If you have embedded short
> hostnames and ip addresses in hosts.cfg, there is no need to dual-enter
> the same information in /etc/hosts
>
> Does your xymon behave any better if your hosts.cfg looks like:
>> # We are not going to use FQDNs or DNS. Use testip instead.
>> 0.0.0.0		.default.	# testip
>> 127.0.0.1	localhost	# bbd	http://localhost/
>> 10.1.2.159	island-vm	# bbd	http://localhost/
>>
>> # group-compress is a hold-over from BB. 'group' does the same thing.
>> group	Boomi
>> 172.33.1.39	BOOMIAPP01	# ssh ntp
> http://172.33.1.39:28080/connect/Interchange.html
>> 172.33.1.38	BOOMITEST01	# ssh ntp
>> 172.33.1.81	RAMPDEV		# ssh ntp
>
>
> Is there anything in ~/data/hist/BOOMIAPP01.conn ?
>
> If you insert --debug on the xymonnet line in tasks.cfg, does anything
> interesting appear in the log file (named in that section)?
>
>