[Xymon] monitoring virtual vips

Greetings,

I have virtual vips to monitor -- there will be no client installed on these virtual vips, obviously.

I would like to monitor the ping test and see if ports are open. Here is what I have in the hobbit-clients.cfg

PORT LOCAL=%(:23456|:8377|:8378|:23455) $" state=LISTEN SUBPAGE=vips

I'm still getting only a dash on the vips page -- thanks in advance for any help

Rod