[Xymon] Client IP address change

[Vernon Everett]

Yep, that worked.
So where is it keeping a record of the IP address or cache of the name/IP?
As I mentioned, I changed hosts.cfg, and restarted Xymon server.
I would have expected that to force a reread of hosts.cfg, and cleared any
cache of the old IP address.

Thanks for you help.

Regards
Vernon


On 18 November 2015 at 10:04, Josh Luthman <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>
wrote:

> The default conn test is to the hostname.  If it can't get DNS for it,
> then it will try the IP.
>
> To skip this behavior you can do (in hosts.cfg)
> 1.1.1.1 foo.bar.com # testip
>
> If the hostname doesn't have DNS you'll need to do this and of course
> correct the IP.
>
>
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> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 9:01 PM, Vernon Everett <everett.vernon at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> Is there a "trick" to changing the IP address of a monitored Unix client?
>> We had to change the IP address of a client a few days ago, but not the
>> host name.
>> In hosts.cfg, I changed the IP, but since then, the host conn is still
>> red, and lists the old IP address.
>> I tried restarting the Xymon server, and when that didn't help, I
>> restarted the cache daemon - not that I was expecting that to help. (The
>> client isn't in DNS.)
>> The only place it can get the IP (old or new) is from hosts.cfg, and I
>> have removed all references to the old IP from hosts.cfg.
>> All other (client side) tests work fine, except conn, and of course ssh
>> and rpc, which are disabled automatically, believing the host is down.
>>
>> Any tips appreciated.
>>
>> Regards
>> Vernon
>>
>>
>>
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>>
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