[hobbit] Madness

[ZanDAhaR]

Everett, Vernon wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Will Hobbit be OK monitoring 2 separate clients with the same host name?
>
> I know this is madness, but right now, I have to live with it.
>
> We have 2 servers on our network with the same hostname.
> (Different IP address, of course, but if I use the hostname or uname
> command, I get the same name.
> For the sake of discussion, let's call it pluto.
>
> It ended up like this because there are services running on old_pluto,
> that are being migrated to the new_pluto, but only half the services are
> migrated, and due to planning inadequacies, the migration is stalled -
> at least for the time being.
>
> I still want to minitor the services on both though.
>
> I know I can create an alias on the Hobbit display, but will there be
> problems with the data sent from the Hobbit client, or will the Hobbit
> server be happy with this?
>
> Cheers
>    Vernon
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Define a new and old DNS entry and change the hobbitclient.sh to 
hardcode the machine name instead of doing a uname ?

Otherwise yeah I would imagine they will both update the same data set 
but dont quote me on that one

Allan