From leen.smit@vtspn.nl Wed Jun 24 08:22:16 2026
From: leen.smit@vtspn.nl
To: xymon@xymon.com
Subject: [Xymon] Question about Combo test / hosts
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 11:39:02 +0200
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Dear All,
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I'm trying to get the combo test working.. At this point I do see the
combo test on the status page, but when I try to get details about one
of the tests I get a message "no such host"
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My question is.. What should the host name be, and where to configure
it??
Should I send the host name from the client?
Or should the host exists under that name in the hosts.cfg?
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Current setup:
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combo.cfg:
GRN.Koppelingen =3D ( vnoasu4001.KoppelingenGRNA ||
vnobsu4002.KoppelingenGRNB )=20

hosts.cfg relevant lin:
group-only      |Koppelingen|=20
145.119.54.28 GRN       # COMMENT:"Prod GRN"
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$ ./combostatus --no-update
combo
status GRN.blueview green Tue Jul  2 11:27:08 2013
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(vnoasu4001.BlueviewA||vnobsu4002.BlueviewB) =3D (1||1) =3D 1
&clear <a
href=3D"/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?HOST=3Dvnoasu4001&amp;SERVICE=3DBlueviewA">vno
asu4001.BlueviewA</a>
&clear <a
href=3D"/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?HOST=3Dvnobsu4002&amp;SERVICE=3DBlueviewB">vno
bsu4002.BlueviewB</a>

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On the client:
       TEST=3D"KoppelingenGRNA"
        MACHINE=3D"vnoasu4001.KoppelingenGRNA" =20
        LINE=3D"status $MACHINE.$TEST $COLOR `date`
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Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Leen

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From jlaidman@rebel-it.com.au Wed Jun 24 08:22:16 2026
From: jlaidman@rebel-it.com.au
To: xymon@xymon.com
Subject: [Xymon] Question about Combo test / hosts
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2013 12:44:01 +1000
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On 2 July 2013 19:39, Smit, L. (Leen) <leen.smit at vtspn.nl> wrote:

> My question is.. What should the host name be, and where to configure it??
> Should I send the host name from the client?
> Or should the host exists under that name in the hosts.cfg?
>

It goes into hosts.cfg.  You just make up any old hostname you like.  I
have a separate page (group) for combo display like so:

title Cluster of servers number 1
group Cluster1
0.0.0.0 this-cluster # noconn NAME:"This cluster" COMMENT:"Server 1 and
server 2"
0.0.0.0 that-cluster # noconn NAME:"That cluster" COMMENT:"Server 3 and
server 4"
group Cluster2
0.0.0.0 nother-cluster # ...
0.0.0.0 yetnothercluster # ...

I'm naming the clusters as "???-cluster".  Then in combo.cfg, I define each
cluster name and the test being reported:

this-cluster.dns (server1.example.com.dns || server2.example.com.dns)
that-cluster.http (server3.example.com.http || server4.example.com.http)
...

The "dns" and "http" tests must be generated somehow.  In my case, by
standard xymonnet tests listed against the servers in hosts.cfg, like:

10.1.2.3 server1.example.com # ping dns ntp
10.1.2.3 server2.example.com # ping dns ntp

But you can generate the test messages any way you like, such as
"KoppelingenGRNA" in your case.

J

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