Smokeping Slave Unknown...help please

[ajwilliamson1]

Am trying to create a new slave smokeping server and am having trouble with getting it to talk to the master.

On the slave, when starting the service in debug, I receive the following:
smokeping[3871]: WARNING: I don't know the slave uksdc-smokeping.precisely.network ignoring it smokeping[3871]: Sent data to Server. Server said WARNING: I don't know the slave uksdc-precisely.xyz.network ignoring it smokeping[3871]: ERROR: we did not get config from the master. Maybe we are not configured as a slave for any of the targets on the master ?

The masters config file has the slave section that looks like this:

*** Slaves ***
secrets = /etc/smokeping/smokeping_secrets
+ slave1
display_name = uksdc-smokeping.precisely.network
location = UK
color = 0000ff

+ slave2
display_name = inbdc-smokeping.precisely.network
location = IN
color = 00ff00

*** Targets ***
probe = FPing
menu = Top
title = Network Latency Grapher
remark = Welcome to the SmokePing website of <b>Precisely Software, Inc.</b>. Here you will learn all about the latency of our network.
slaves = slave1 slave2

And the smokeping_secrets file has this:
uksdc-smokeping.precisely.network:redactedpassword

I am starting the slaves smokeping service with this command:
/usr/sbin/smokeping --debug-daemon --shared-secret=/var/lib/smokeping/slave_secret --slave-name=uksdc-smokeping.precisely.network --master-url=http://smokeping.precisely.network/smokeping/sm.cgi --cache-dir=/var/lib/smokeping/cache-dir

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

[ajwilliamson1]

On the slave, I've tried modifying the slave-name to be the FQDN, the hostname, and even slave1.
On the master I've tried defining the slaves as slave1 and slave2; uksdc-smokeping and inbdc-smokeping; and fqdns for both.
In the secrets file, I've tried hostname and FQDN as well.

I just can't seem to find the right combination.

[jtgad]

I set this up for the first time today, it's a bit fiddly, but I got there.
The Slaves entry needs to match output of 'hostname' command on the slave. IMO your Slaves entries look exactly the wrong way around [vs display_name]. Bear in mind the display_name appears on the graphs so you want something concise.
Also, in mine, there is no space between + and the hostname of the slave, maybe that is significant?