[hobbit] feature request aliasnames

[Rolf Schrittenlocher]

Hi Henrik,

> 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 ?
> 
...
That is part of but not totally what we'd like to have. The problem are 
extension scripts on clients. An example:
One machine may be nameserver using the name xxxdns.uni-frankfurt.de, 
webserver using the alias xxxweb.uni-frankfurt.de and databaseserver 
using xxxdb.uni-frankfurt.de at the same time. Each of these aliases has 
local extension scripts running which send data to (so far) bb-display. 
In bb we hacked bbinc.sh to get $MACHINE set to the first alias and we 
could use bbaliasname to enable a second alias. bbexttab is created 
dynamically so extension scripts for these two aliases will work. There 
is no way I see so far (except of starting these scripts by crontab 
instead of bb-client) to enable more than these two aliases to work 
correctly with extension scripts.

kind regards
Rolf


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