[Xymon] Displaying results when the DNS FQDN is different from uname -n

[Bruce Ferrell]

you can also look under reports for ghost clients and see what the xymon server thinks it is


On 5/19/20 6:17 PM, Stephen Carville (xymon list) wrote:
> I have several new machines that do not display local information in XYMon. Part of that is the FQDN differs from the name returned by uname -n. For example 
> apg-rdtx-nde-01.lereta.net thinks it is just plain apg-rdtx-nde-01.  I verified this by capturing the clientlog sent to the server.
>
> I tried the obvious trick of putting a CLIENT: entry into host.cfg but to no avail. That works for a couple of other nodes where the name returned by uname -n is different than 
> the DNS name we know them by so I am mystified as to why it won't work here
>
> Example hosts.cfg entry:
>
> 10.1.224.187  apg-rdtx-nde-01.lereta.net  # ssh CLIENT:apg-rdtx-nde-01
>
> As I said above, I captured the traffic from one of the clients and I can see that it is sending the information to XYMon. However, I cannot find where it is being stored if at 
> all. Normally, I look in /var/xymon/data/hostdata/<servername> but it doesn't appear to be there.
>
> Is there a way to make this work?
>
> -- 
> Stephen
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