[Xymon] test ssh domain name instead of IP

[Mark Felder]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014, at 14:54, Kris Springer wrote:
> Anyone know how to test ssh using a domain name instead of an IP? I'm 
> using the rclient and monitoring NAS devices that are remote and behind 
> port forwarded DHCP home routers that have DDNS names so I have 0.0.0.0 
> for the host IP's in the hosts.cfg file.  I just want to test ssh to the 
> DDNS name, not the IP.  The NAS host line in my hosts.cfg is not using a 
> FQDN as the hostname because that gets checked as a separate host.  
> Here's a sample of what I have in my hosts.cfg file.
> 
> 0.0.0.0         myrouter.myddns.net     # trace
> 0.0.0.0         NAS                 # noconn ssh "RCLIENT:cmd(ssh -T -i 
> /home/xymon/.ssh/xymon-rclient root at myrouter.myddns.net),ostype(linux)"
> 

If the server can resolve the hostname it will use that for the tests.
If you put NAS in your /etc/hosts file I believe it should work.