On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Jesse Becker haw...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:35, Brad Nicholes bnicho...@novell.com wrote:
How well does this fit into the previous discussions of using a GUID to
identify a box rather than an IP or FQDN? Are aliasing and GUID identifiers
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 15:52, Spike Spiegel fsm...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Jesse Becker haw...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:35, Brad Nicholes bnicho...@novell.com wrote:
How well does this fit into the previous discussions of using a GUID to
identify a
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Jesse Becker haw...@gmail.com wrote:
The GUID discussion I refered to was if gmond/gmetad should be
rewritten, top-to-bottom, to use GUIDs instead of relying on DNS/IP
addresses. My understanding is that everything would have use them,
including the .rrd files
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 17:05, Spike Spiegel fsm...@gmail.com wrote:
As to Rick's comments I believe they are only valid if we assume that
the string representing a host should be its ip or the fqdn resolving
to it, which I think is one of the many problems this alias patch is
meant to solve
Works for me; generating a GUID into an alias value in the
configuration file may be the easiest way to avoid resolving things.
Whether the map to something easy to debug from is from an IP address
or a GUID isn't particularly material to me; I just want that map to
be easy (and in my
