[Xymon] IP address

[Leon Swanepoel]

Hi

Yes I reinstalled xymon. I am using Ubuntu 18.

Thank You,
Leon

On Thu, 2019-06-13 at 12:16 +0200, Damien Martins wrote:
> 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 ?
>