On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 08:23:10AM +1000, Ashley Wright wrote: > Hi, > > I have noticed that sometimes my hosts on ganglia are called 'node001' > and sometimes 'node001.ibm.grid.qut.edu.au'. > > How does ganglia determine the name of the node? I was short names in > all my configurations, and in my /etc/host file. However the reverse > lookup for dns is the FQDN (as you would expect). 'hostname' also > returns the FQDN. > > What information does ganglia use, as sometimes I get the short name and > sometime the FQDN.
I believe Ganglia uses the result of gethostbyname. This is generally succeptable to issues like ordering of entries in /etc/hosts and of course nsswitch.conf configuration. To aid in diagnosis, you may want to use a tool like gh-tool. http://sourceforge.net/projects/gh-tool/ -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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