HCIHOSTID

[Ronald Ortiz]

When you run the HCIHOSTID command, what does it look at to generate that number?  

We had done a snapshot of our VM and done a restore later, just to find out the hostid had changed.  So I’m trying to figure out what the HCIHOSTID is looking at.

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[James Cobane]

I believe it is looking at the actual machine name, similar to the hostid command in UNIX or perhaps the hostname command in Windows.

Jim Cobane

Henry Ford Health

[Ronald Ortiz]

Well, I know it’s not the MAC address nor the Hostname.  That give’s me a different value.

[Robert Kersemakers]

I searched the forum: hcihostid appears to use ‘certain physical parameters’ of the environment. So not sure which. But I also read that it shouldn’t be a problem, as long as you use the correct hcihostid program and your VMware server remains the same.

Have a look at these threads:

https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/viewtopic.php?t=3624

https://usspvlclovertch2.infor.com/viewtopic.php?t=5404

Zuyderland Medisch Centrum; Heerlen/Sittard; The Netherlands

[Elisha Gould]

hcihostid is based off the MAC address. If you change the primary MAC address back to what it was prior to the restore, hcihostid will be as it was previously.

[Ronald Ortiz]

Now, what if you have the same MAC address but a different IP?

Does that affect the hcihostid?

[Jeff Drumm]

Ronald Ortiz wrote:

Now, what if you have the same MAC address but a different IP?

Does that affect the hcihostid?

No, it doesn’t. I didn’t think it would, but I verified by changing the static address associated with the virtual machine on which I have Cloverleaf installed. The hcihostid command returns the same value as previously.

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