I have a hobbit setup where I have in my bb-hosts:

1.2.3.4 virtual.mydomain.com # CLIENT:realhostname.mydomain.com ... 1.2.3.5 realhostname.mydomain.com # conn ssh disk cpu

The problem I am experiencing is that the client data columns are displayed for "realhostname.mydomain.com", but they are not displayed for "virtual.mydomain.com".

---snip - bb-hosts man page --- CLIENT:hostname Defines an alias for a host, which will be used when identifying status messages. This is typically used to accomodate a local client that sends in status reports with a different hostname, e.g. if you use hostnames with domains in your Hobbit configuration, but the client is a silly Window box that does not include the hostname. Or vice versa. Whatever the reason, this can be used to match status reports with the hosts you define in your bb-hosts file. It causes incoming status reports with the specified hostname to be filed using the hostname defined in bb-hosts.

From reading this, the behavior I expect is that you can alias a host to another hostname, and you should get all the same data as the other hostname...is that wrong?

P.S. I also tried using "NAME:hostname", but that had the effect of changing realhostname.mydomain.com to virtual.mydomain.com on other pages, which is not what I want.

-Charles