On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 7:10 AM L Foo <wonderfoo2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for ALL your valuable feedback!
>
I'm glad you sorted it out.
The hint from Ryan seemed to have cured the client page reporting issues.
> As it turned out, the AIX clients in questioned showed up in 'Ghost
> Clients' list on in short hostname as opposed to it's real FQDN hostname.
>
This explanation doesn't fit with this symptom:
/xymon/logs # tail -10 xymonclient.log
...
2016-05-18 15:56:51.683098 Whoops ! Failed to send message (timeout)
nor this:
/xymon/bin # ./xymon --debug 172.31.2.131 test
...
9568302 2016-05-18 15:58:42.134223 Timeout while talking to Xymon
daemon at 172.31.2.131:1984 - retrying
If your client cannot talk to the Xymon server, it cannot create a ghost
client entry. The cause of the above symptoms remains a mystery (to me).
J