[Labs-l] nagios monitoring via snmp / puppet freshness checks / ec2-metadata

[Platonides]

On 31/03/12 11:37, Daniel Zahn wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Petr Bena <benapetr at gmail.com> wrote:
>> That is something you need to fix, since it's on puppet side. I can
>> only do stuff on nagios.
> 
> Adding it to puppet isn't a big deal, it's just _which_ command we can
> use on an instance to find out the "nice" name.

It's defined in the environment variable INSTANCENAME, which is set in
/etc/bash.bashrc.
Some openstack template must be copying the nice name there.



> But i think i would prefer to change all instances and set their
> hostname to the nice name, so that you also get those at the bash
> prompt, and this also just works like on production without further
> exceptions.

Yes, it makes more sense.