I have 2 Xymon servers (4.2.3). The primary (Solaris) one is the display server and does network testing for the 'public' network servers. The other (RHEL) is what BB would have called a BBNET server and only does network testing for hosts in the 'zone' network. The BBLOCATION variable is set for both, 'public' for the first and 'zone' for the second. And, yes, the appropriate client hosts are tagged with NET:zone.

I'm really confused about the rest of the configuration requirements for the 'zone' server (hobbitserver.cfg, hobbitlaunch.cfg, etc.). Should it be configured like a normal server? How does it know where to send the messages to (the display server)? Does it need to run the xymon client, or does it get by with the server only like the display server?

As a side note, on the zone server I'm getting the following in the hobbitlaunch.log file:

2012-05-14 13:12:22 xgetenv: Cannot find value for variable 2012-05-14 13:12:22 xgetenv: Cannot find value for variable

I don't believe I was getting that before.

Note: I had this working, but a mysterious 'glitch' blew away some of the zone server files and so far I've been unable to duplicate what I had before. Yes, there are backups, but so far they have not been terribly helpful. In particular, I haven't been able to get the .../etc/ directory restored from backups yet.

Thanks! Steve

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