diff --git a/plugins/other/xen-cpu b/plugins/other/xen-cpu
index 14648f9c..8540d109 100755
--- a/plugins/other/xen-cpu
+++ b/plugins/other/xen-cpu
@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@
 #   config 	(required)
 #   autoconf	(optional - used by munin-config)
 #
+# Changelog:
+# Properly ignore the xentop output header line.
+# Ward Vandewege (ward@gnu.org), 2011-04-20
+#
 #%# family=auto
 #%# capabilities=autoconf
 
@@ -104,6 +108,7 @@ foreach my $domain (@stats) {
 	# trim the leading whitespace
 	$domain =~ s/^\s+//;
 	my @v_tmp = split(/\s+/, $domain);
+	next if ($v_tmp[0] eq 'NAME');
 
 	# we need to change - and . to _ or things get weird with the graphs
 	# some decent quoting would probably fix this, but this works for now