In your bb-hosts (hosts.cfg) file, name them different things. Also, the clients need to report themselves as different names.

Paul Root Lead Internet Systems Eng Qwest Network Services

From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Sauer, Chris Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 4:35 PM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [Xymon] Question about 2 hosts named the same but have diffrent IP and DNS entries

Please bear with me, I am new at managing this instance. We have 2 hosts that have different IP and DNS entries, but locally on the systems are named the same. These systems are part of a multi-node appliance. I do not have control over their local hostname. We are monitoring both nodes, but the xymon page shows the data and the status of only one of them twice (The system for 10.45.x.x). Here is the config info from bb-hosts: 10.35.160.46 columbia_1-8 # conn ssh 10.45.192.37 columbia_1-8 # conn ssh

On the monitor page, under "info" it shows the IP address for only the 10.35.x.x host for both entries. The 10.35.x.x is listed first in the bb-hosts config file? Is there a way to have it show the same name but use the IP only? Thanks, Chris Sauer

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