We'd like to use short hostnames as all of our keys in the xCAT tables, to save 
typing, and have the FQDN assigned as the hostname after an install.

We could fix the hostname with a postscript,  or perhaps a Kickstart statement, 
however we'd prefer to have it done more transparently.

It would be great if we could use something like a regex in 
"network.nodehostname="/\z/.nyc.desres.deshaw.com/" to do this automatically:

[root@drdkvm0003 dump1]# lsdef -t network 149_77_52_0-255_255_254_0
Object name: 149_77_52_0-255_255_254_0
    ddnsdomain=nyc.desres.deshaw.com
    domain=nyc.desres.deshaw.com
    dynamicrange=149.77.53.132-149.77.53.191
    gateway=149.77.52.10
    mask=255.255.254.0
    mgtifname=!remote!
    nameservers=149.77.52.53,149.77.52.35,10.232.15.130
    net=149.77.52.0
    nodehostname=/\z/.nyc.desres.deshaw.com/
    ntpservers=149.77.52.24,149.77.52.41,149.77.52.138,149.77.52.129
    tftpserver=149.77.53.252

But this doesn't seem to have any effect on the DHCP host-name entry generated 
in the leases file, or on the "HOSTNAME=develkv8" entry put in 
/etc/sysconfig/network after the install.

BTW.   We do have the FQDN listed first in /etc/hosts and DNS:

[root@develkv8 ~]# hostname
develkv8
[root@develkv8 ~]# host 149.77.53.121
121.53.77.149.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer develkv8.nyc.desres.deshaw.com.
[root@develkv8 ~]# grep develkv8 /etc/hosts

>>>   149.77.53.121          develkv8.nyc.desres.deshaw.com develkv8       # 
>>> row 0 rack 0 rank 0

Is there a transparent way to do this?

Thanks.
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