[Xymon] Using '.default.' in hosts.cfg

[John Horne]

On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 15:12 +0000, John Horne wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Using Xymon 4.3.7 I want to add a '.default.' entry to my hosts.cfg
> file, but am unsure of its syntax. The man page for hosts.cfg says
> '...you can define a host name ".default." and put...'.
> 
> so does that mean:
> 
>    .default.    noclear
> or
>    127.0.0.1   .default.  noclear
> 
> What do I enter as the IP address, or can it be anything or can it be
> left out completely?
> 
> The man page is not clear on this, so perhaps a full example would help?
> 
It seems it does require an IP address (I'm using 0.0.0.0), and that it
must be the first entry in the hosts.cfg file.



John.

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