[Xymon] Xymon server fqdn

[Galen Johnson]

Yeah, I thought that was odd, too.  I checked my old configs
(non-terabithia) and they are set exactly like you mention.  Are you using
the terabithia rpms?  I suspect it is something specific to those.

=G=

On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 4:39 PM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>
wrote:

> $MACHINEDOTS should be being set in xymonserver.cfg, I think.  In my
> installation (xymon-4.3.12) I have it the other way around:
>
> XYMONSERVERHOSTNAME="server.domain.com"      # The hostname of your server
> MACHINEDOTS="$XYMONSERVERHOSTNAME"        # This systems hostname
>
> And for some reason I don't remember, the WWW name is set explicitly:
>
> XYMONSERVERWWWNAME="server.domain.com"        # The name used for this
> servers' webserver
>
>
> Ralph Mitchell
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 4:24 PM, Galen Johnson <solitaryr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Interestingly, emails from my work address don't seem to be making it to
>> the list...
>>
>> Hey,
>>
>> I'm at a loss here.  I'm using the Terabithia RPM for my Xymon server and
>> the links that are provided in emails only use the shortname of my xymon
>> server.  For example,
>>
>> https://shortname/xymon
>>
>> instead of
>>
>> https://shortname.example.com/xymon
>>
>> I've dug through the xymonserver.cfg file to see where this is being set
>> and I can trace it to
>>
>> XYMONSERVERWWWNAME="$XYMONSERVERHOSTNAME"       # The name used for this
>> hosts' webserver
>>
>> where XYMONSERVERHOSTNAME is defined as
>>
>> XYMONSERVERHOSTNAME="$MACHINEDOTS"              # The hostname of your
>> server. In the RPM, xymoncmd sets this before we get here
>>
>> I have FQDN="TRUE" set as well.
>>
>> Any idea where I can set this to give me the actual fqdn of the server?
>> I'm assuming that 'xymoncmd' is just pulling in 'hostname' rather than
>> 'hostname -f'.  I must be missing something.
>>
>> Anyone have any insight into what I may be missing?
>>
>> =G=
>>
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