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