[Xymon] Xymon server fqdn

[Galen Johnson]

This was a fresh install (switched over when I replaced the old Centos 6
server).  It started fresh with 4.3.27.  Both hostname and uname -n provide
the shortname.

=G=

On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 5:04 PM, Japheth Cleaver <cleaver at terabithia.org>
wrote:

> Yeah, this was a change around 4.3.18:
>
> From: xymon.CHANGES.terabithia
>
> - On new server installs, $XYMONSERVERHOSTNAME will be set to the
> MACHINEDOTS value
>   given by xymoncmd (which derives it from $HOSTNAME or `uname -n`).
>   $XYMONSERVERWWWNAME will be set to the XYMONSERVERHOSTNAME value.
>
>
> I believe this was related to the migration of settings from wrapper
> scripts to xymoncmd settings, as how $MACHINEDOTS was needed to be inverted
> in systemd-land...
>
> This *should* have been handled by the RPM upgrade process around this
> time... Not sure why it wasn't in this case :/
>
> -jc
>
>
> On 1/5/2017 1:42 PM, Galen Johnson wrote:
>
> 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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>>
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