[Xymon] Where is the linux client name set?

[Ralph Mitchell]

I've had clients check in with the short-form name when it's listed first
in the /etc/hosts file, like this:

     10.10.10.10    client  client.domain.com

Just swapping the names over fixed it and made it check in with the
long-form name:

     10.10.10.10  client.domain.com  client

Not sure why.

Ralph Mitchell


On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 7:44 PM, Josh Luthman <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>
wrote:

> Either uname on the client or hosts config on the server.
>
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> On Sep 15, 2017 7:35 PM, "John Thurston" <john.thurston at alaska.gov> wrote:
>
>> It's been a couple of years since I've needed to configure a linux client
>> (my Solaris systems are still running their old BB clients). And I'm
>> confused with what I'm seeing. This is on a _very_ minimal server
>> installation with client; compiled from source.
>>
>> I have files in ~/client/tmp/ of the form msg.xymonx.state.ak.us.txt (so
>> fully-qualified host.domain name). Yet the first line of that file is:
>>   client xymonx.linux linux
>>
>> So the message body being sent to the xymon server contains the short
>> host name. But the client is writing the file onto the disk with the
>> fully-qualified name.
>>
>> The xymon server reports my client messages as 'ghosts', and correctly
>> picks them up if I put a client alias in hosts.cfg
>>   client:xymonx
>> I'd like to do away with that alias.
>>
>> Where is my linux client picking up this short name?
>>
>> --
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>>
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>> John.Thurston at alaska.gov
>> Department of Administration
>> State of Alaska
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