[Xymon] Where is the linux client name set?

[Galen Johnson]

I run all my systems on Centos 7 (now) and, IIRC, I had to run

hostnamectl set-hostname <fqdn>

Something to try.

=G=


On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 1:30 PM, John Thurston <john.thurston at alaska.gov>
wrote:

> On 9/18/2017 8:30 AM, Jeremy Ruffer wrote:
>
>> I'm on RHEL 6 which is probably the same.
>>
>> In /etc/sysconfig/xymon-client there is a CLIENTHOSTNAME= line.
>>
>
> Are you, perhaps, running the terabitha package of Xymon? I have no such
> file here. As mentioned earlier, I've compiled from source.
>
> For my machine, I have borrowed the terabithia systemd service-file. It
> fires off xymonlaunch with:
>
> ExecStart=/opt/xymon/server/bin/xymoncmd /opt/xymon/server/bin/xymonlaunch
>> --no-daemon $XYMONLAUNCHOPTS
>>
>
> My tasks.cfg has the client to be run with:
>
>>   ENVFILE /opt/xymon/client/etc/xymonclient.cfg
>>   CMD /opt/xymon/client/bin/xymonclient.sh
>>   LOGFILE $XYMONSERVERLOGS/xymonclient.log
>>   INTERVAL 5m
>>
>
> The xymonclient.sh contains the pertinent line:
>
>> echo "client $MACHINE.$SERVEROSTYPE $CONFIGCLASS"  >>  $MSGTMPFILE
>>
>
> When I change $MACHINE to $MACHINEDOTS, the client behaves as expected,
> and sends messages under its fully qualified domain name.
>
> It looks to me like the behavior of uname on my host isn't relevant. The
> xymonclient.sh is specifically writing the short name rather than the long.
>
> Now what isn't clear to me, is where $MACHINE is picking up the short
> name. I had expected it to hold the old-school "comma name". The only place
> I can fine $MACHINE being assigned a value is in runclient.sh. As far as I
> can tell, my chain of commands does not invoke that script but goes
> straight for xymonclient.sh.
>
> Right now, it looks like I have two options:
> A) Modify xymonclient.sh to use MACHINEDOTS
> B) Use a CLIENT tag in my hosts.cfg to accept the short name
>
> I dislike the use of CLIENT tags, but in this case prefer it to
> remembering to patch the client script if I ever rebuild my software.
>
>
>
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