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Re: [xymon] IP address - from where?



If you have "testip" in the server's stanza in bb-hosts then Hobbit uses the
ip address in the bb-hosts file. Otherwise it does a DNS lookup based on the
server's name.

Thanks,
Larry Barber

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 3:36 AM, Vernon Everett <everett.vernon (at) gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all
>
> Probably need some of the coder types to answer this one for me.
> For the different network tests, where does Xymon get the IP address from?
>
> In particular, ping, ssh, oratns, dns etc.
> I think I read somewhere that for ping, Xymon does a host name lookup.
> But is this the case for the other tests?
>
> Thanks
>     Vernon
>
>