Re: [Puppet Users] Registering a puppet agent node with alternate short hostname or alias

2015-05-14 Thread Anil Aix
Hi Rilindo, Thank you for the reply, let me explain the issue more clearly. We have gcloud instances whose private IPs are DNS registered in our company network as hostname.mycompany.com But these google cloud instances seem to have their own local domain as c.ProjectID and thus hostname

Re: [Puppet Users] Registering a puppet agent node with alternate short hostname or alias

2015-05-14 Thread Anil Aix
Hi Rilindo, Thank you for the reply, let me explain the issue more clearly. We have gcloud instances whose private IPs are DNS registered in our company network as hostname.mycompany.com But these google cloud instances seem to have their own local domain as c.ProjectID and thus hostname

[Puppet Users] Registering a puppet agent node with alternate short hostname or alias

2015-05-13 Thread Anil Aix
We were trying to register gcloud instances to puppet master, but the instance names are very long with uc1f-coster-xxx02.c.xxxa--xx0.internal Is it possible to register these nodes with a short hostname or an alias...?, I tried adding below line in /etc/puppet/puppet.cong of client.

Re: [Puppet Users] Registering a puppet agent node with alternate short hostname or alias

2015-05-13 Thread Rilindo Foster
By default, the certname is the fully qualified domain. You can change it via the node_name_value or node_name_fact; however, you need to have a very good reason to change the settings before you move forward with it. https://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/configuration.html#certname -