[Xymon] Where is the linux client name set?

[Galen Johnson]

John,

Which version and flavor of linux?

=G=

On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 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?
>
> --
>    Do things because you should, not just because you can.
>
> John Thurston    907-465-8591
> John.Thurston at alaska.gov
> Department of Administration
> State of Alaska
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