[Xymon] disabled fqdn not working

[John Thurston]

On 9/1/2018 6:07 AM, Kris Springer wrote:
> I just built a new xymon server that will only be used on an internal 
> network with 192 addresses.  I have FQDN="FALSE" in the xymonserver.cfg 
> but the ping results shown on the xymon webpage show that the tests are 
> using names to test instead of IP's. 

The FQDN option doesn't affect how the xymonnet process performs its 
tests. It affects how client/host names are used by xymon. From the man:

> FQDN : If set to TRUE, Xymon will use fully-qualified hostnames
> throughout. If set to FALSE, hostnames are stripped of their
> domain-part before being processed. It is highly recommended that you
> keep this set to TRUE. Default: TRUE

If what you are trying to do is make all the conn tests be performed by 
IP, you need to adjust the --dns option on xymonnet in your tasks.cfg

> --dns=[ip|only|standard]
> With "--dns=ip" xymonnet will never do a DNS lookup; it will use the IP adresse specified in hosts.cfg for the tests.


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