What is a sensu-client IP address used for? How clients are identified by server?

Sensu Classic (EOL)
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Hi there.

  • I’ve rebooted my varnish servers and they’ve changed their IP addresses.

  • Sensu, as many other apps, is managed via Puppet in my env.

  • Puppet won’t run unless I tell it so.

So, these varnish servers IP addresses changed, Puppet didn’t run so the IP addresses in client.json didn’t change either, but there’re no warnings or errors in sensu. I mean, doesn’t it have to trigger an alarm if the address don’t match the actual one? How does sensu server identify the nodes? By name?

Thanks!

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The Sensu client “address” just has to be a string, can be an IP address, host name, or another location identifier, it’s not used for anything.

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On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 7:10 AM, Mariano González gonzalez.mariano.gabriel@gmail.com wrote:

Hi there.

  • I’ve rebooted my varnish servers and they’ve changed their IP addresses.
  • Sensu, as many other apps, is managed via Puppet in my env.
  • Puppet won’t run unless I tell it so.

So, these varnish servers IP addresses changed, Puppet didn’t run so the IP addresses in client.json didn’t change either, but there’re no warnings or errors in sensu. I mean, doesn’t it have to trigger an alarm if the address don’t match the actual one? How does sensu server identify the nodes? By name?

Thanks!