Brilliant, my thanks Buchan and Paul for your assistance.
I found that if I wanted to use a single hosts.cfg file as Buchan suggested then I had to create a NET tag for every entry and adjust it for those in the new network. This was easily done by adding "NET:default" on to the .default. entry and setting XYMONNETWORK="default" in the xymonserver.cfg file.
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From: Buchan Milne [mailto:bgmilne at staff.telkomsa.net] Sent: 05 January 2012 09:17 To: xymon at xymon.com Cc: Root, Paul; Ward, Martin Subject: Re: [Xymon] Setting up a Xymon proxy server
On Wednesday, 4 January 2012 20:42:06 Root, Paul wrote:
Yes, they need to be in the hosts.cfg file on the main server, otherwise,
they would be ghosts.
Put the noconn directive in the servers hosts.cfg file after the # for the
proxied machines.
This approach will work, but the NET tag was specifically provided for this case, and would mean you aren't forced to have diverging hosts.cfg files across your Xymon servers.
Devmon also respects the NET tag.
Regards,
Buchan
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