[Xymon] Email and website notifications wrong IPs

[Tres Finocchiaro]

We had this issue and it was caused by invalid settings in our DNS server.
Xymon seems to attempt a DNS resolution prior to using the hard-coded IP
address, which was tremendously confusing for us, but identified a problem
were were unaware of.

-Tres

- Tres.Finocchiaro at gmail.com

On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Neal, Jonathan W via Xymon <xymon at xymon.com
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> From: "Neal, Jonathan W" <wes.neal at verizon.com>
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> Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 11:12:50 -0500
> Subject: Email and website notifications wrong IPs
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> Emails for some of my systems on the new Xymon server are going out with
> bad IPs in them.
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> The system is correct in hosts.cfg and it seems it is monitoring the
> correct host, but when it alerts on it, Xymon puts the wrong IP in the
> email and it also puts the wrong IP on the webpage.  If I grep for that
> incorrect IP, it doesn’t exist in $xymon/server/etc anywhere.
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> From notifications log I see this:
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> Tue Nov  4 15:21:34 2014 DTAMMI-DYN2.conn (XXX.XXX.25.228)  EMAIL ADDRESS
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> But the email it sends out says this:
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> System unreachable for 4014 poll periods (1211916 seconds)
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> &red XXX.XXX.19.160 is unreachable
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> If I look at the Xymon webpage for it also has this address listed:
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> XXX.XXX.19.160 is unreachable
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> Any idea what might be causing this?
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> Wes Neal
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