[hobbit] 2 hosts with the same name

[Trent Melcher]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] 
> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 10:45 AM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] 2 hosts with the same name
> 
> On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 10:36:03AM -0600, Trent Melcher wrote:
> > Is there an easy way to monitor 2 servers with the same 
> computername 
> > using 1 hobbit server?  We are monitoring both our production 
> > enviroment and test environments.  Unfortunately the 
> computername in 
> > test or prod cannot be changed.
> 
> They must have different names in the bb-hosts file, or 
> Hobbit will not be able to distinguish between them. So you 
> need to make up a pseudo hostname for at least one of them.
> 
> For the client data (assuming you have a Hobbit client on 
> them), you can modify the hostname it uses to report data and 
> make sure it matches the name you use in bb-hosts.

I do, they are windows servers, so Im running the bbwin client. I will
modify the registry entry for %COMPUTERNAME% .  Thanks
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Henrik
> 
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Trent Melcher
Unix/Linux Systems Administrator
Securities America Financial Corporation
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