Default sidecar.yml node_name

[veehexx]

We’re nearing the end of graylog 2.x to 3.0 migration and come to polishing up the sidecar deployment.
looks like with the default sidecar.yml file, it has node_name: “graylog-server” which is predefined.
How do we define a blank node_name for default deployment?
Manually editing the yml file works but not that scaleable.

We silent install the sidecar with the following:
graylog_sidecar_installer_1.0.0-1.exe /S -SERVERURL=... -APITOKEN=...
i’ve tried -NODENAME parameter on the above. It works but only if it’s not empty.

it almost looks like the sidecar installer doesn’t actually allow an empty node_name yml and if it detects one, automatically fills in ‘graylog-server’ in so it’ll never detect the hostname.

[veehexx]

looks like it might be https://github.com/Graylog2/collector-sidecar/issues/339

[benvanstaveren]

Unsure how to do this on Windows On our *nix machines we use Ansible to template out the configuration file so we always end up with the hostname set properly.

[tmacgbay]

If you don’t define the nodename (comment it out) it will default to the host name.

 # The node name of the sidecar. If this is empty, the sidecar will use the
 # hostname of the host it is running on.
 # Default: ""
 # node_name: "graylog-sidecar"

we have our installer set up to copy in a pre-built yml with node_name commented out but contains the correct server_url and server_api_token. Then it is set as a service and started.