[hobbit] 4.1.1 client hostname

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 12:40:26PM +0200, Dirk Kastens wrote:
> I just installed the new hobbit client on one of our
> linux machines. It didn't send data to the hobbit
> server until I changed its hostname to a fully
> qualified name. The bb client has the option FQDN
> that must be set to "true" if the server needs
> a fully qualified name. What about the hobbit
> client?

By default, the Hobbit client sends in reports using
the name provided by "uname -n". If this is not the
name that is used in the Hobbit servers' bb-hosts file, 
then the Hobbit server will silently discard these data
as being from an "unknown" host.

So you have three possibilities:

1) Make the client report their status with the same
   hostname that you use in the Hobbit servers' bb-hosts
   file. Do this by adding a
      MACHINEDOTS="my.host.name"
   entry in the clients' client/etc/hobbitclient.cfg file.

2) Same as 1), but done on the server side by modifying
   the servers' bb-hosts file

3) Tell the server about the other hostname used by the
   client, by adding a "CLIENT:clienthostname" tag to the
   the hosts' entry in the servers' bb-hosts file.

I recommend 1) since that is the cleanest way of doing it.


Regards,
Henrik