Hello everyone, i have made some changes to the mender-client inventory to have expand the device inventory for some basic monitoring. The next steps i want to undertake is to be able to show an alias as already suggested. [hostname-alias-mender] The reason i want to do this, so non IT people w…

Hi @genedupre , I understand your concern, but I think this is more of a conceptual problem and it relates to identity (or how to identify devices): If your devices can have identical hostnames, how would your IT users know which one is which? So I would say we are talking about identity here, not…

[opinion] modifications to the Device groups attributes

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genedupre March 27, 2020, 9:53am 5

Hi @eystein,
yes it was a good idea to append an mac to the hostname to make sure the value is unique

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[opinion] modifications to the Device groups attributes

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