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Subject:	You do need these setup - and
Author:	Jane Curry
Posted:	2015-11-04 09:15

You do need these setup - and the others for hbase etc - see the Zenoss 5 Install Guide - page 34 - "Starting and Tuning Zenoss Core". I have always used DNS but you can put the appropriate entry into /etc/hosts.
Cheers,
Jane

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Subject:	How do you define the /etc/host entries?
Author:	[Not Specified]
Posted:	2015-11-04 09:45

The doc does not really tell you what value 'cc' is in the example on page 37. I think it is the Deployment ID, but not sure.

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Subject:	what is the value used for 'cc'
Author:	[Not Specified]
Posted:	2015-11-04 09:52

In the Install doc it references 'cc' as the name, but does not tell you what value that refers to.

Is it the Deployment ID, the Application, virtual host name, or something else

Thanks,
Eric

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Subject:	In the example in the admin
Author:	Andrew Kirch
Posted:	2015-11-04 10:58

In the example in the admin guide,

192.0.2.12 cc.big.io cc zenoss5.cc hbase.cc opentsdb.cc rabbitmq.cc

This is a simple hosts file entry. So the IP address of your Zenoss server is 192.0.2.12.
It's hostname - basic hostname, no fancy Zenoss docker stuff - is cc.big.io
The /etc/hosts entry has a fully-qualified domain name first - cc.domain.io
It then has an alias which is the short name - cc
The zenoss5.cc hbase.cc opentsdb.cc rabbitmq.cc stuff
is then more aliases

Cheers,
Jane

Andrew Kirch

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Subject:	bah
Author:	Jane Curry
Posted:	2015-11-04 11:03

bah - after finally getting an authentication prompt.

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Subject:	I should note that at least
Author:	Andrew Kirch
Posted:	2015-11-04 11:06

I should note that at least on this rare occasion I got to look far more intelligent than usual.

Thanks Jane!

Andrew Kirch

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Subject:	Still cannot find appropriate solution.
Author:	[Not Specified]
Posted:	2015-11-05 06:08

I am in a lab in a secure facility, and I do not have admin rights on the machines I am working on so I cannot edit the /etc/hosts file on the workstation I am using. It also makes no sense to have to custom-configure DNS in a lab just to do an evaluation.

Quite honestly, as a former Zenoss engineer I am really disappointed with how control center works. I used to be able to set up a completely independent test system without having to engage services like DNS just to get it running. Forcing all these alias' on Linux makes no sense - it feels like you are trying to dumb things down for the user, but it makes things more complicated for the engineer. Unfortunately when doing an evaluation the engineer is the user so it seems like you are shooting yourself in the foot.

Is there a way to run an evaluation using IP addresses only If I cannot do that we may have to take a pass on Zenoss, which would suck because I know the product and the value we will get from both the open source version and the enterprise version.