[Xymon] Client IP address change

[Adam Goryachev]

On 18/11/2015 21:42, Vernon Everett wrote:
> 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.

Silly question, but did you check /etc/hosts ?

Regards,
Adam
>
> 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.
>>
>>
>> Josh Luthman
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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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