[Xymon] Xymon Client Masquerade IP Address Reported

[Mark Felder]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2015, at 08:58, J. Alexander Jacocks wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am a fairly new user to the Xymon monitoring tool, and I am working in
> an
> unusual environment.  In this environment, the Xymon server lives outside
> of a NATed private IP environment, which contains all of the clients. 
> So,
> of course, the clients report private IPs to the server, which are then
> registered in hosts.cfg.  The problem is that I do not have access to
> change the settings on the server, because it is not managed by me, and
> the
> IPs listed in our monitoring dashboard are unreachable, since the server
> would use NATed public IPs to reach the clients.
> 
> Does anyone know of a way to force the Xymon client to report a specific
> IP
> address, especially one which may not actually be present on the host?  I
> went through the docs, and didn't see an obvious way to make this happen,
> with most of the relevant advice suggesting aliasing multiple IPs to one
> client, on the Xymon server side, which I can't do, in this case.
> 

I'm pretty sure the client reports only include the hostname. The IP is
whatever the server detected from the incoming connection. I don't think
there's a way for you to change this.