Interestingly, my ubuntu laptop also responds with just "Linux" to the 
platform.system() call. 

Unfortunately, it appears that I cannot get CentOS 7.1 yet on AWS...I think 
Gregswift mentioned that worked for him today. I could test it next week at 
work with a physical install to identify the issue further, if that's 
helpful.

On Friday, November 13, 2015 at 3:10:19 PM UTC-6, Joanna Delaporte wrote:
>
> HI Brian, 
>
> Thanks! Both hosts had the same responses. Here's the result:
>
> >>> print(platform.system())
> Linux
> >>> print(platform.linux_distribution())
> ('CentOS Linux', '7.0.1406', 'Core')
> >>> print(platform.dist())
> ('centos', '7.0.1406', 'Core')
>
> So, if the module is first looking at platform.system and taking any 
> answer it receives, the only answer the module receives from this 
> distribution version is "Linux".
>
> On Friday, November 13, 2015 at 1:41:24 PM UTC-6, Brian Coca wrote:
>>
>> the 'magic' gets done in the load_platform_subclass, which matches the 
>> platform name to a class of the same name + Hostname, which then sets 
>> the strategy class, which actually implements the way of updating 
>> hostname. 
>>
>> to figure out platform name it uses platform.system() built in from 
>> python. can you do test the output of this in your instance? also 
>> platform.linux_distribution() and platform.dist() which might be used 
>> as fallbacks. 
>>
>> -- 
>> Brian Coca 
>>
>

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