[Xymon] Xymond Multi-source statuses

[Jeremy Laidman]

On 9 May 2018 at 02:14, Rich Jones <rich at corporationpop.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Another one of those things I keep meaning to ask but keep on forgetting...
> I'm seeing under the xymond column the following:
>
> Multi-source statuses
>   xymon.url.com:cpu reported by 127.0.0.1 and xx.xxx.226.227
>   xymon.url.com:disk reported by 127.0.0.1 and xx.xxx.226.227
>   xymon.url.com:files reported by 127.0.0.1 and xx.xxx.226.227
>   xymon.url.com:inode reported by 127.0.0.1 and xx.xxx.226.227
>   xymon.url.com:memory reported by 127.0.0.1 and xx.xxx.226.227
>   xymon.url.com:msgs reported by 127.0.0.1 and xx.xxx.226.227
>   xymon.url.com:ports reported by 127.0.0.1 and xx.xxx.226.227
>   xymon.url.com:procs reported by 127.0.0.1 and xx.xxx.226.227
>   xymon.url.com:uptime reported by 127.0.0.1 and xx.xxx.226.227
>
> Looking through the archive it makes sense, Xymon is receiving data from
> two sources, which I guess it is, however the two IPs are localhost and the
> server IP address.
>
> I'm guessing this is likely to do with how the things are setup on the
> server rather than Xymon itself (eg in /etc/hosts)?
>
> Can someone point me in the right direction to resolve this? I'm running
> Xymon 4.3.28
>

It appears that the Xymon server is reporting to itself twice, using its
network IP address and the loopback address. The Xymon client that
generates the client data messages (from where these metrics come) will use
the $XYMSRV environment variable, and send to whatever IP address is
defined therein. Sometimes this is set to "0.0.0.0" which tells the Xymon
client to look at $XYMSERVERS as a list of multiple destinations. I suspect
you have XYMSERVERS="127.0.0.1 xx.xxx.226.227". On a Xymon server these
variables are is set in xymonserver.cfg.

J
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