[Xymon] Xymon server fqdn

[Galen Johnson]

Ok...adding to /etc/hosts made no difference.  I had to set the hostname to
the fqdn so it would get picked up by uname -a and hostname as the fqdn.
Of course, I had to restart xymon server to get that picked up correctly (I
always forget to do that).

On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 5:23 PM, Galen Johnson <solitaryr at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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