Re: Is there any way to specify the hostname in the monit config file?

[Martin Pala]

Hi Tomas,

currently the hostname is based only on the name assigned to the host (should 
equal to output of "hostname" utility, expanded to FQDN if found).

We have implemented the support for custom hostname configuration … if the 
"check system <name>" is defined in the monit configuration file, then the name 
will be used as hostname. If the given Monit is configured with M/Monit, this 
hostname will be also used as the initial name of the host entry in M/Monit. If 
the "check system <name>" is missing, then the hostname defaults to system 
hostname.

You can get the snapshot of the development source code from here (it's 
basically 5.4 + the mentioned change):
http://www.mmonit.com/tmp/monit-5.5_20120905.tar.gz


Regards,
Martin


On May 8, 2012, at 1:18 PM, Tomas Nunez wrote:

> Hi
> 
> Some times you have servers which you refer to with a different name than 
> their host name (host in AWS, for example). If I want monit to report with a 
> different hostname than "hostname -f", can I explicitly specify the host name 
> in the config file? Is there any workaround?
> 
> I've found no such option in the config file or the documentation...
> 
> Thanks!
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