[Xymon] Strange Client Behavior

[Carl Inglis]

Have you checked your Ghost Clients page?

If the hostname doesn’t match between what the server’s expecting and what the client’s sending, then the reports will land on the Ghost Clients page.

Hope that helps.

Carl


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From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Joseph De Nicolo
Sent: 06 February 2013 15:45
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [Xymon] Strange Client Behavior

Xymon users,

Once upon a time I had a xymon client called "hostname". In all the xymon server config files(hosts.cfg, analysis.cfg, alerts.cfg) the client was written as "hostname" in the configs when setting its properties and behavior(alerts, warnings, ect..). Now I wish to change the way "hostname" appears on the xymon webpage to "hostname.example.org<http://hostname.example.org>".

Bear in mind this "hostname" has a xymon client install so I can receive all standard and custom reports & scripts. After changing all the server config files, keeping them constant but now replaced every instance of "hostname" to "hostname.example.org<http://hostname.example.org>" the reports are not showing up on the webpage. I can still see icons and reports for conn, ssh, http, info.. but NOT the ones that are required by a client install(disk, cpu, memory, procs, ports, etc...) all those reports disappeared after the name change.

XYmon server and client service restarts didn't help. I also hard rebooted the xymon server and that didn't help either. If I were to change "hostname.example.org<http://hostname.example.org>" back to "hostname", all the reports and tests will show up again! I'm confused because I changed the names of another server and it was fine. So am I missing something stupid? Anybody have any ideas or experience this before?

Appreciate all the responses, Thanks,

Joseph De Nicolo
Secure Database Administrator
Center for Complex Network Research<http://www.barabasilab.com>
Northeastern University
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