[Xymon] Xymon server fqdn

[Galen Johnson]

I already did that.  I'm currently setting the fqdn first in /etc/hosts
since I've been bitten by gethostbyname before with name sensitive
services.  I'll let you know if that works. (only had the default localhost
stuff before)

=G=

On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 5:20 PM, Japheth Cleaver <cleaver at terabithia.org>
wrote:

> 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>
> 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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