[AWIPS #VUL-992154]: AWIPS question / short hostname?

> You don't know me, but I'm a little desperate for information on a stumbling 
> block I've encountered.
> 
> I believe it has to do with AWIPS' (and I mean CAVE and alertviz) reluctance 
> to run on a system with a fully qualified domain name.  I got wind of this 
> issue and I think it is what's thwarting me.
> 
> I'm not a true AWIPS person, rather a systems person who is tasked with 
> getting AWIPS running on a AWS cloud platform, so I have to install CAVE on a 
> linux system that isn't letting me change its hostname to the shortname.
> 
> I hope you'd be able to confirm I'm not crazy  -seems like a strange problem- 
> and perhaps you can direct me to some help or discussion of the matter.

Hello,

I've put this inquiry into our ticketing system so we can keep it documented.

We haven't ever installed CAVE on a cloud platform since my team has started 
working here, but I don't think I've run into the issue. What does your 
hostname look like? 

I haven't heard of an issue like that, but maybe it's different because of the 
cloud aspect? When I run "hostname" on my linux machine, I get the FQDN 
(hardy.unidata.ucar.edu), not the shortname and am able to run CAVE just fine. 

Have you reached out to anyone at NWS's OSTI or MDL? They've been running CAVE 
from AWS I believe. 



Thanks,

Tiffany Meyer
AWIPS Lead Software Engineer
UCAR-Unidata

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