Feature #6134
closed
Discovered hosts are always prefixed with "mac"
Added by Konstantin Orekhov about 10 years ago.
Updated over 9 years ago.
Description
Current way of using a MAC address to generate a hostname for a discovered host poses some limitations during life-cycle of the machine. For example, a MB or NIC card replacement would cause MAC addresses to be updated causing a hostname change as well. If there's an ability to specify a fact name in discovery plug-in just like discovery_bootif to override the default using macaddress, it'll provide an easy way for people like to use say "serialnumber" fact in a hostname or something like that.
- Subject changed from Add an ability to use arbitrary fact as the "hostname" for newly discovered hosts to Discovered hosts are always prefixed with "mac"
Roger is right, Konstantin. You can do this today, but we have a bug when your hostname will be always prefixed by "mac". This is because hostname MUST start with letter, not number.
We need to fix this by either making the "mac" string configurable, or adding it only when the resulting hostname does not start with a letter (which is ugly). I am all for the former. Greg?
Lukas Zapletal wrote:
We need to fix this by either making the "mac" string configurable, or adding it only when the resulting hostname does not start with a letter (which is ugly). I am all for the former. Greg?
+1 to making that string configurable.
- Status changed from New to Assigned
- Assignee set to Ori Rabin
- Status changed from Assigned to Ready For Testing
- Pull request https://github.com/theforeman/foreman_discovery/pull/94 added
- Pull request deleted (
- Status changed from Ready For Testing to Closed
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
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