[Xymon] Host Names

[Jeremy Laidman]

On Tue, 19 Jul 2016, 07:22 Joshua Hunt <joshuasocrates at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> So I believe this is a simpler problem, however, I'm struggling to fix it
> even after reading through the man pages.
>
> Lets take an example host from my hosts.cfg file, call it
> "myhost.site.secure". When I look at my Xymon webpage, I want to the header
> "testhost" instead of "myhost.site.secure" at the front of the system line.
> I can get the name to appear correctly, but when I do, all of my tests stop
> producing data. Here are the options I've tried:
>
> NAME:testhost myhost.site.secure
> CLIENT:testhost myhost.site.secure
> testhost:myhost.site.secure
> testhost myhost.site.secure
>
> All of them run into the same problem of data no longer showing up. Anyone
> have any idea why this is happening?
>

Try something like:

10.1.2.3 testhost # CLIENT:my host.site.secure

Also, as a side question: If I were to add the same host three times under
> 3 different aliases, with all the network tests disabled, would that cause
> any issues within Xymon?
>

I don't think so.

J
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