[hobbit] feature request aliasnames

[Henrik Stoerner]

Hi Rolf,

On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 02:06:53PM +0200, Rolf Schrittenlocher wrote:
> We are working with virtual hosts. Our services are linked to virtual 
> hostnames, each machine may have a number of virtual hostnames. So one 
> machine should be able to send reports using different hostnames. In bb 
> we had bbaliasname for that purpose which set a limit of 2 to the number 
> of names usable. There we had to hack bbinc, bb-bbexttab, etc.

So what you're asking for is that each virtual server can have the full
set of client status messages: cpu, disk, memory and so on - but these
should just be copies of the status messages from the real server, not
data obtained by querying the virtual server ?

Or is this related to clustering ? I know some HP-UX clusters have
their clustered applications tied to a virtual IP-address, which then
follows the software package as it moves to different hosts in the
cluster. So maybe you have a custom extension script running and it can 
run on any node in the cluster, but you always want it reported on 
a specific host from your bb-hosts file ?

I think Hobbit can do what you want to do without any code changes
being needed, but I have to understand your request first :-)


Regards,
Henrik