Issue #3926 has been updated by Greg Maples.
A variation of bios based serial number is available in all sun/solaris machines, all linux based dell, hp, aix/ibm, etc. It's available on the mac, etc. I would think that covering 90% of your target user base with something virtually guaranteed to be unique, and using some other sequence for the 10% would be a fast and very useful approach. ---------------------------------------- Bug #3926: uniqueid not unique enough http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/3926 Author: Greg Maples Status: Needs design decision Priority: Normal Assigned to: Category: library Target version: Affected version: 0.25.4 Keywords: Branch: basing it on hostid is not nearly unique enough especially in a xen environment with duplicated machines and multiple instances of IPs and MACs. I'd suggest something like serial number from BIOS (works for dell, hp, ibm, etc - significant portion of all x86 machines) modified by the system time when facter was initially installed. -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en.
