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HOBBIT-GHOSTS.CGI(1) General Commands Manual HOBBIT-GHOSTS.CGI(1)

NAME

hobbit-ghosts.cgi - CGI program to view ghost clients

SYNOPSIS

hobbit-ghosts.cgi
 

DESCRIPTION

hobbit-ghosts.cgi is invoked as a CGI script via the hobbit-ghosts.sh CGI wrapper.
 
It generates a listing of the Xymon clients that have reported data to the Xymon server, but are not listed in the bb-hosts(5) file. Data from these clients - called "ghosts" - are ignored, since Xymon does not know which webpage to present the data on.
 
The listing includes the hostname that the client reports with, the IP-address where the report came from, and how long ago the report arrived.
 
By far the most common reason for hosts showing up here is that the client uses a hostname without a DNS domain, but the bb-hosts file uses the hostname with the DNS domain. Or vice versa. You can then use a CLIENT setting in the bb-hosts file to match the two hostnames together.
 

OPTIONS

--env=FILENAME
Loads the environment defined in FILENAME before executing the CGI script.
 

SEE ALSO

bb-hosts(5), hobbitserver.cfg(5)
 
Version 4.2.3: 4 Feb 2009 Xymon