[Xymon] Xymon conn icon shows white, rather than green

[Peng, Kingston]

My test shows if I only put the hostname and ip address on
~xymon/server/etc/hosts.cfg, then "ssh" test will show red.
Only after I put the same hostname and ip address on /etc/hosts, then
the "ssh" icon will show green. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of John Thurston
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 9:00 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Xymon conn icon shows white, rather than green

On 2/24/2014 4:25 PM, Peng, Kingston wrote:
> I didn't put anything on /etc/hosts.cfg.  When I said hosts.cfg, it is
> /home/xymon/server/etc/hosts.cfg.

Sorry for the confusion. My fingers auto-corrected as they typed. I 
don't understand why you are making any changes to /etc/hosts
... especially after seeing your hosts.cfg  If you have embedded short 
hostnames and ip addresses in hosts.cfg, there is no need to dual-enter 
the same information in /etc/hosts

Does your xymon behave any better if your hosts.cfg looks like:
> # We are not going to use FQDNs or DNS. Use testip instead.
> 0.0.0.0		.default.	# testip
> 127.0.0.1	localhost	# bbd	http://localhost/
> 10.1.2.159	island-vm	# bbd	http://localhost/
>
> # group-compress is a hold-over from BB. 'group' does the same thing.
> group	Boomi
> 172.33.1.39	BOOMIAPP01	# ssh ntp
http://172.33.1.39:28080/connect/Interchange.html
> 172.33.1.38	BOOMITEST01	# ssh ntp
> 172.33.1.81	RAMPDEV		# ssh ntp


Is there anything in ~/data/hist/BOOMIAPP01.conn ?

If you insert --debug on the xymonnet line in tasks.cfg, does anything 
interesting appear in the log file (named in that section)?


-- 
    Do things because you should, not just because you can.

John Thurston    907-465-8591
John.Thurston at alaska.gov
Enterprise Technology Services
Department of Administration
State of Alaska
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