[Xymon] Xymon server fqdn

[Japheth Cleaver]

On 1/5/2017 2:14 PM, Galen Johnson wrote:
> 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=
>

Ahh, that'll do it then.

IIRC $HOSTNAME is used if available, but the uname syscall, followed by 
a fork to `uname -n` itself, are then used to derive the local name.

Just modify XYMONSERVERWWWNAME by hand in xymonserver.cfg to whatever 
the external view of the WWW address should be and it should work.

HTH,
-jc


> On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 5:04 PM, Japheth Cleaver 
> <cleaver at terabithia.org <mailto: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 <mailto:ralphmitchell at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         $MACHINEDOTS should be being set in xymonserver.cfg, I
>>         think.  In my installation (xymon-4.3.12) I have it the other
>>         way around:
>>
>>         XYMONSERVERHOSTNAME="server.domain.com
>>         <http://server.domain.com>"   # The hostname of your server
>>         MACHINEDOTS="$XYMONSERVERHOSTNAME"      # This systems hostname
>>
>>         And for some reason I don't remember, the WWW name is set
>>         explicitly:
>>
>>         XYMONSERVERWWWNAME="server.domain.com
>>         <http://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 <mailto: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
>>             <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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