I'm setting up a new instance of Xymon 4.3.30 on a RHEL 7.9 system and something simple has me absolutely baffled.

-- [root at adm2 hosts.d]# cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.9 (Maipo)

[root at adm2 hosts.d]# rpm -q xymon xymon-4.3.30-1.el7.x86_64

In the setup there are a couple of VMware vCenters and several VMware ESXi hosts.

The vCenter(s) have SSH and Web server access, but the ESXi hosts have had their SSH servers disabled and they only run the Web services.

A greatly oversimplified version of my "/etc/xymon/hosts.d/localhosts.cfg" file is as follows:

-- [root at adm2 hosts.d]# grep https localhosts.cfg 192.168.1.1 vcenter01 # ssh https://vcenter01=192.168.1.1/ 192.168.1.100 esxi-1 # https://esxi-1=192.168.1.100/ 192.168.1.101 esxi-2 # https://esxi-2=192.168.1.101/

After putting in these entries, the vCenter shows up fine in the Web interface but the ESXi hosts all show up with an "ssh" column - and red entries for all!

About 30 minutes later, they've turned to purple.

As you can see, I didn't put "ssh" into the (local)hosts.cfg file entries for the ESXi hosts; so why are they showing up as red alerts?

It's like as if the "https" test is implicitly causing an "ssh" test to be run, even if I didn't ask for it.

Color me baffled. If I don't put "ssh" into the hosts.cfg entry, why is it running an "ssh" test?

Any clues? I'm sure I could probably run "xymon 127.0.0.1 'drop <host> ssh'" for all of them, but I'd rather know why this is happening.

Thanks in advance for any help.

	- Greg