[Xymon] host and test names with dots

[Torsten Richter]

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Hi,

from what I remember the dots of a FQDN get replaced by a comma and the
dot is still the delimiter between host and test.
So in your case it would be foo,bar,com,baz.test.

Cheers
Torsten

On 20.03.2017 21:07, John Thurston wrote:
> On 3/20/2017 10:51 AM, Root, Paul T wrote:
>> Hosts can have dots in them. The default is that you give FQDN.
>>
>>
>>
>> I’ve never tried for a test name. My gut feeling is that you couldn’t do
>> that.
> 
> I can't see how the server would be able to parse the message. Is
> 'foo.bar.com.baz' a test named 'com.baz' for host 'foo.bar', or is it a
> test named 'bar.com.baz' for a host named 'foo'?
> 
> From what I recall of my last read of the source, the parser assumes dot
> is the delimiter, and the last field is the test name. Everything to the
> left of that is the hostname. The above example would be parsed as a
> test named 'baz' for host 'foo.bar.com'
> 

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