feature request aliasnames

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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