[Xymon] Ghost-busting... how to locate a ghost client

[Ribeiro, Glauber]

And it worked! Thank you.

g

From: Ribeiro, Glauber
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2018 08:18
To: Root, Paul T <Paul.Root at CenturyLink.com>
Subject: RE: Ghost-busting... how to locate a ghost client

That is an excellent idea, thanks!

g

From: Root, Paul T [mailto:Paul.Root at CenturyLink.com]
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2018 16:58
To: Ribeiro, Glauber <glauber.ribeiro at experian.com<mailto:glauber.ribeiro at experian.com>>; xymon >> xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com> <xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>>
Subject: RE: Ghost-busting... how to locate a ghost client

So that would be the server is performing a test on the non-existent machine.

Look in tasks.cfg or tasks.d. Or maybe it’s a crontab.

The other thing you can do is put the non-existent machine into hosts.cfg and then eventually you will get the test to show up, so you know what it is that is running on that machine.

From: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com<mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com>> On Behalf Of Ribeiro, Glauber
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2018 4:28 PM
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Subject: [Xymon] Ghost-busting... how to locate a ghost client

I have a non-existent server which shows constantly in my “Ghost clients” report. I think there must be a test somewhere that’s reporting the wrong host name.

Is there anything I can do to find out where that message is coming from? The Ghost clients report tells me the sender is “127.0.0.1” (of course).

Thanks,

glauber

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