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The license of some software products in our data center is bound to the hostname. To make sure the license check is OK we set the "hostname" different to what we consider the physical hostname and what should be used to register the node in AD.

To give an example: output of "uname -n" and "hostname" is different, depending on which physical host is currently the active cluster node:

# Host 1 is PowerHA active node:

# ==============================

Host 1 $ uname -n

host1

Host 1 $ hostname

virtualhost

Host 2 $ uname -n

host2

Host 2 $hostname

host2

# Host 2 is PowerHA active node:

# ==============================

Host 1 $ uname -n

host1

Host 1 $ hostname

host1

Host 2 $ uname -n

host2

Host 2 $hostname

virtualhost

When joining both nodes one host is joined as "host1" or "host2", and the other one is joined as "virtualhost".

So we are looking for a trick to force a certain name for the join other than the hostname output. Preferably a domainjoin-cli switch like "--adname" or the "uname -n" output. Or the possibility to rename the node after the join.