[Xymon] Email and website notifications wrong IPs

[Mark Felder]

Yes! There are two ways to do this.

1. Set testip globally for everything in hosts.cfg. 

At the top of the hosts.cfg you would set this rule:

0.0.0.0 .default. # testip

2. Configure xymonnet for different DNS behavior. From the xymonnet man
page:

--dns=[ip|only|standard]
    Determines how xymonnet finds the IP adresses of the hosts to test.
    By default (the "standard"), xymonnet does a DNS lookup of the
    hostname to determine the IP address, unless the host has the
    "testip" tag, or the DNS lookup fails.
    With "--dns=only" xymonnet will ONLY do the DNS lookup; if it fails,
    then all services on that host will be reported as being down.
    With "--dns=ip" xymonnet will never do a DNS lookup; it will use the
    IP adresse specified in hosts.cfg for the tests. Thus, this setting
    is equivalent to having the "testip" tag on all hosts. Note that
    http tests will ignore this setting and still perform a DNS lookup
    for the hostname given in the URL; see the "xymonnet tags for HTTP
    tests" section in hosts.cfg(5)

You would change this in your tasks.cfg file. The default looks like
this:

# "xymonnet" runs the xymonnet tool to perform the network based tests -
i.e. http, smtp, ssh, dns and
# all of the various network protocols we need to test.
[xymonnet]
        ENVFILE /usr/local/www/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg
        NEEDS xymond
        CMD xymonnet --report --ping --checkresponse
        LOGFILE $XYMONSERVERLOGS/xymonnet.log
        INTERVAL 5m


Just add --dns=ip to the CMD line