Kacheong Poon wrote: > Michael Schuster wrote: >> On 02/25/09 15:46, Michael Schuster wrote: >> >>> since there's been no other comments, I'll proceed as follows: >>> >>> - remove the "serverID" keyword again. >>> - since the base of the serverID is now the SG name, remove the >>> ability to use the hostname as (base) serverID. >>> - (this is according to the initial plan) modify commands which used >>> to manipulate servers by address to now handle server IDs. >> >> Would it be better to not only change the commands to accept server >> IDs instead of IP addresses, but also change the *keyword* from >> "server" to something else, so there's no (well ... less) confusion: >> so instead of: > > > Isn't the serverID (base + a number) assigned by the system? > And the number part may possibly change when the same server > is removed and then added back. Correct? If the above are > true, then an admin may not know the "current" serverID and > it means that requiring a serverID to be specified can be > problematic.
ahem ... the whole notion of the server ID was created to have something other than the ip address to manipulate servers with. What do you suggested we do? Michael -- Michael Schuster http://blogs.sun.com/recursion Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion'
