[Xymon] host and test names with dots

[Rodrigo Borges Pereira]

Hi,

Thanks all for the comments/confirmations.

I find that I don't need to convert the dots in the hostname part to
commas, I just push it as it is to xymon utility. Xymon will get testname
after the last dot, regardless of the dots before.

As I just need this for the sake of better visualization and copy-paste for
test names that have dots (IP's or hostnames), I guess one approach is to
modify the source that produces the pages so that in the HTML the commas
become dots.

Thanks again!

On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 8:22 PM Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The original BigBrother used just server name and test name, separated by
> a dot:
>
>    server<dot>testname
>
> When FQDN was introduced into BB, the parts of the fully-qualified
> hostname were comma-separated:
>
>    server<comma>domain<comma>com<dot>testname
>
> I don't know how it deals with multiple dots in the testname.
>
> Ralph Mitchell
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 4:07 PM, John Thurston <john.thurston at alaska.gov>
> wrote:
>
> On 3/20/2017 10:51 AM, Root, Paul T wrote:
>
> Hosts can have dots in them. The default is that you give FQDN.
>
>
>
> I’ve never tried for a test name. My gut feeling is that you couldn’t do
> that.
>
>
> I can't see how the server would be able to parse the message. Is
> 'foo.bar.com.baz' a test named 'com.baz' for host 'foo.bar', or is it a
> test named 'bar.com.baz' for a host named 'foo'?
>
> From what I recall of my last read of the source, the parser assumes dot
> is the delimiter, and the last field is the test name. Everything to the
> left of that is the hostname. The above example would be parsed as a test
> named 'baz' for host 'foo.bar.com'
>
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