[hobbit] hobbit-clients.cfg not working?

[Gary Baluha]

On 10/30/07, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 10:28:25AM -0400, Gary Baluha wrote:
> > Henrik can correct me if I'm wrong, but from my experience, Hobbit
> matches
> > the data coming in to it from the clients by IP address (as well as
> using
> > the IP address for network tests).  I haven't figured out exactly where
> the
> > name comes into play, but it seems to use the name from the second field
> > after the IP address is processed.  If the name and IP don't match and
> there
> > isn't a CLIENT: field, it seems to get confused.
>
> Actually, Hobbit doesn't use the IP for any matching of client data with
> the hosts that Hobbit knows about. This all happens based on the
> hostname that the client reports, and the hostnames in the bb-hosts
> file.


Ah, right.  IP is just for network tests then, correct?

The client usually picks up the hostname from the "uname -n" command
> output, and uses this when reporting data to Hobbit. Hobbit then looks
> for this name in the bb-hosts file (2nd column) and if there's a match,
> that one is used. However, it often happens that these names do not
> match - typically there's a fully-qualified hostname in one place, and a
> plain hostname with no domain in the other. To handle this, you can use
> the CLIENT tag to tell Hobbit about the "alias" name that the client
> uses.
>
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