[FLUME-599] please add easier to use way to define name of flume node

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 0.9.4
• Fix Version/s: 0.9.5
• Component/s: Node
• Labels: flume

Environment

redhat/centos/ubuntu/debian

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Disabled imported user
• Created: 09/Apr/11 22:06
• Updated: 05/Nov/14 10:09
• Resolved: 05/Nov/14 10:09

Description

I have some machines running flume, flume sees them as "machinename.domain.com" or "machinename", depending
on my entries in /etc/hosts , or whether I have a line "machinename" in the same line as /etc/hosts ,
or possibly what my network's local DNS server reports.

I can either start up a flume node with "flume node -n Name", or I can mess around with adding that parameter into the flume startup
script run by /etc/init.d/flume-node

It would be nice if there was a parameter I could define that would let me control the name of the node that is used by flume.

Maybe I want all of my machines to appears as 'machinename', maybe as 'machinename.domain.com', but I don't want a mix.

I think a good place for this parameter would be in /etc/sysconfig/flume-node for centos/redhat, or /etc/default/flume-node for debian/ubuntu.