[Xymon] find host feature

[Thomas Eckert]

The documentation of Xymon is really excellent.
A good time to say “Thanks for Xymon!” to Henrik :-)

On 03 Sep 2014, at 08:23, Torsten Richter <bb4 at richter-it.net> wrote:

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> Hi Thomas,
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> sometimes it pays to read the manpages.
> Especially when they are that good like Henriks.
> Thanks for the quick answer and this was exactly what I was looking for.
> 
> Cheers
> Torsten
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> On 03.09.2014 08:14, Thomas Eckert wrote:
>> Good morning Torsten,
>> 
>> the docs (https://www.xymon.com/help/manpages/man1/findhost.cgi.1.html) hint on `host=REGEX` as the correct parameter.
>> 
>> The html-source of the search-form on the `jump`-parameter.
>> 
>> So your URL should look like
>> 
>> https://www.xymon.com/xymon-cgi/findhost.sh?host=felix&jump
>> 
>> (Note: the link target on xymon.com currently points to a non-existing destination).
>> 
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Thomas
>> 
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>> On 03 Sep 2014, at 07:23, Torsten Richter <bb4 at richter-it.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi everybody,
>> 
>> a colleague of mine has written a very comprehensive monitor script for
>> one of our applications and it is sending the data under some virtual
>> hostname.
>> 
>> Now he asked me if (since he writes the real hostname where the
>> application runs on top of his output) the find host feature can be used
>> to "linkify" the hostname and if you click on it you'll be directly
>> taken to the subpage where the host resides.
>> 
>> But all my attempts were failures. So I pass this question onto you:
>> How should the link look to make it work?
>> I was thinking of something like
>> http://myxymon.server.tld/xymon-bin/findhost.sh?hostname
>> 
>> TIA
>> Torsten
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