[Xymon] IP address

[Damien Martins]

Le 13/06/2019 à 12:12, Leon Swanepoel a écrit :
> Good day,
>
> I followed the steps and it is still not working. Somewhere its
> referencing the old ip. Even a reinstall did not work. I could not
> change the makefile though as I am on Ubuntu and am using apt-get.
>
> Thank You,
> Leon
>
>
> On Thu, 2019-06-13 at 08:59 +0000, Becker Christian wrote:
>> Leon,
>>
>> i did this in the past and from my experience I can say it is not enough to simply restart the xymon services.
>>
>> In my case, I had to reflect these additional steps:
>>
>> a)
>> Make your basic server config work correctly - reflect your changes to /etc/hosts and whatever files are needed for your linux distro to have the server get the right IP address after a reboot.
>>
>> b)
>> I had to change the settings in "xymonserver.cfg". In my installation, there was an entry "XYMONSERVERIP" that did not point to 127.0.0.1 - so I had to change this.
>>
>> c)
>> I needed to recompile xymon on the server. Probably this was because I was coming from an elder version of xymon.
>> So I went into my directory from where I installed xymon.
>> There I changed the file "Makefile". In this "Makefile" there is an entry "XYMONHOSTIP" that also did not point to 127.0.0.1 - so I had to change this.
>> Afterwards, I did a "make" and "make install".
>> After that xymon did start.
>>
>> d)
>> As soon as you configured your xymon clients to report to an IP-address instead to a xymon-server-name: you need to change all of your xymon clients as well in the file xymonclient.cfg.
>> There is an entry XYMSRV.
>> After doing that restart the xymon services on your clients.
>> If you have Windows clients you need to change the settings either in bbwin or psclient - whatever you are using.
>>
>> This was what was necessary for MY installation - I cannot say if this will do the trick for YOUR installation.
>>
>> Hope this works for you!
>>
>> Regards
>> Christian
>>
>>
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> Im Auftrag von Leon Swanepoel
>> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 13. Juni 2019 10:07
>> An: xymon at xymon.com
>> Betreff: [Xymon] IP address
>>
>> Good day,
>>
>> Is there a way to change the ip address of the xymon server? I changed the ip address and now xymon server is not working any more. Any ideas anyone? Thank you in advance.
>>
>> Thank You,
>> Leon
>>
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Leon,


How did you install xymon ? what OS are you using ?