[Xymon] issues with new install

[Jeremy Laidman]

Michael, have you checked your ghost report?  Perhaps the hostnames in
hosts.cfg don't match what the clients know themselves as.

J

On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 6:57 PM Michael Resnick via Xymon <xymon at xymon.com>
wrote:

> Thanks. I have done more investigating. in the hostdata folder on the
> xymon server shows up, all the servers show "No such host" in the Info
> column, so it look like the hosts are not being created in hostdata. What
> is the trigger that creates the data ?  Weird problem. I have been using
> xymon for years and have never seen this, but usually I build from the tar.
> Thanks  for any help.
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* J.C. Cleaver <cleaver at terabithia.org>
> *To:* Michael Resnick <sys1002 at yahoo.com>
> *Cc:* Xymon Mailing List <xymon at xymon.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 1, 2015 11:00 PM
>
> *Subject:* Re: issues with new install
>
> On Tue, December 1, 2015 8:04 am, Michael Resnick wrote:
> > xymon server itself is fine. All the other servers are tests with conn
> > only, with just 2 havingxymon client and 6 running rclient.
> > none of the servers have a full set of columns except the xymon
> > server.rclient log shows successfully completed 6 servers and the
> > clientlog looks good.
> > I may try rolling back to 4.3.21 or earlier. The last I used at my
> > previous job was 4.3.11
> > It is a pain to install , since I have no Internet access in this
> > environment.
>
>
> Can you edit tasks.cfg to run "xymond_client" (in the [clientdata]
> section) in --debug mode and see if you see data for these clients?
>
> Also, can you confirm that the non-xymonserver client (the "non-rclient"
> one) is working OK and you're getting status messages for?
>
> It seems like either a well-formed client message isn't making its way in
> in the first place, or xymond_client isn't properly processing it back
> into xymond. Either way, we should be able to see some evidence (or not)
> in the xymond_client logs as the clientlog injections occur.
>
>
> HTH,
>
>
>
> -jc
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Michael Resnick via Xymon <xymon at xymon.com>
> To: "J.C. Cleaver" <cleaver at terabithia.org>
> Cc: Xymon Mailing List <xymon at xymon.com>
> Date: Wed,  2 Dec 2015 08:57:40 +0100 (CET)
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] issues with new install
> _______________________________________________
> Xymon mailing list
> Xymon at xymon.com
> http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.xymon.com/pipermail/xymon/attachments/20151210/70079bf4/attachment.html>