[Xymon] IP address

[Leon Swanepoel]

Good day,

I followed the steps and it is still not working. Somewhere its
referencing the old ip. Even a reinstall did not work. I could not
change the makefile though as I am on Ubuntu and am using apt-get.

Thank You,
Leon


On Thu, 2019-06-13 at 08:59 +0000, Becker Christian wrote:
> Leon,
> 
> i did this in the past and from my experience I can say it is not enough to simply restart the xymon services.
> 
> In my case, I had to reflect these additional steps:
> 
> a)
> Make your basic server config work correctly - reflect your changes to /etc/hosts and whatever files are needed for your linux distro to have the server get the right IP address after a reboot.
> 
> b)
> I had to change the settings in "xymonserver.cfg". In my installation, there was an entry "XYMONSERVERIP" that did not point to 127.0.0.1 - so I had to change this.
> 
> c)
> I needed to recompile xymon on the server. Probably this was because I was coming from an elder version of xymon.
> So I went into my directory from where I installed xymon.
> There I changed the file "Makefile". In this "Makefile" there is an entry "XYMONHOSTIP" that also did not point to 127.0.0.1 - so I had to change this.
> Afterwards, I did a "make" and "make install".
> After that xymon did start.
> 
> d)
> As soon as you configured your xymon clients to report to an IP-address instead to a xymon-server-name: you need to change all of your xymon clients as well in the file xymonclient.cfg.
> There is an entry XYMSRV.
> After doing that restart the xymon services on your clients.
> If you have Windows clients you need to change the settings either in bbwin or psclient - whatever you are using.
> 
> This was what was necessary for MY installation - I cannot say if this will do the trick for YOUR installation.
> 
> Hope this works for you!
> 
> Regards
> Christian
> 
> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> Im Auftrag von Leon Swanepoel
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 13. Juni 2019 10:07
> An: xymon at xymon.com
> Betreff: [Xymon] IP address
> 
> Good day,
> 
> Is there a way to change the ip address of the xymon server? I changed the ip address and now xymon server is not working any more. Any ideas anyone? Thank you in advance.
> 
> Thank You,
> Leon
> 
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