[Xymon] Client hostname on server

[Novosielski, Ryan]

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So it would appear that the name of the client hostname comes into the
equation before xymonclient.cfg -- that file doesn't contain a
hostname, and the hostname is instead set in xymon.sh that runs the
server.

What I ended up doing is not running the client via the server anymore
and just running it separately, which is what I was doing before 4.3.x
because for whatever reason the server just failed to run the clients
on my machine under 4.2.x

In any case, if someone has a better solution, I'd be interested to
hear it. Basically I'm trying to run the client software on the server
via the client server but have a different value for MACHINEDOTS,
which is the client software hostname.

On 02/22/2013 12:03 PM, Novosielski, Ryan wrote:
> I definitely agree, and know that I could probably fix this by 
> manually setting the hostname in the client software... But I am 
> reticent to do that if I don't understand why it is happening. Is 
> this just how it works when you run the client via the server?
> Where is the server name set?
> 
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> xymon-bounces at xymon.com [xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of 
> Another Xymon User [xymon at epperson.homelinux.net] Sent: Friday, 
> February 22, 2013 9:01 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] 
> Client hostname on server
> 
> If you don't want to lose the history, use "rename" instead of 
> "drop".  But the core issue is probably that the client side is
> still reporting as "xymon".
> 
> On 2013-02-22 8:11, Mike Burger wrote:
> 
> Hi, I run 4.3.10 and the client name for my server has always been 
> the same as the server name (xymon). This is not the hostname of
> the machine. The server machine is also listed elsewhere in
> hosts.cfg with just the network tests under its actual hostname.
> I've decided it would be better to have the client tests (cpu,
> disk, etc.) under the host's real name as well and keep the xymon
> stuff under the xymon name. Originally I had the actual hostname in
> hosts.cfg in a CLIENT: tag. I've since removed that next to the
> host name xymon and moved it to the real host name. However, even
> after a restart, nothing has changed -- all client tests are still
> kept up to date under hostname xymon. The client is launched by the
> server in tasks.cfg as per usual. Any idea why this is happening?
> Thanks.
> 
> Did you run run a xymon drop on the old host name? Have you
> checked the config on the client to make sure it doesn't have the
> wrong hostname manually set?
> 
> 
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