Use piggyback data only from one source

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Hello,
I successfully use the Proxmox VE agent to monitor data from my QEMU VMS and LXC containers. Now, I installed a new, more powerful Proxmox host and already migrated some VMs and shut them down on the old PVE host. Because the VM still exists on the old host, I got piggyback data for my VMs from both PVE hosts. Is there a way to accept piggyback data for my VMs only from on source and ignore the other or is it necessary to completely delete the VM on my old PVE host?
Regards,
Alex

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Hi,

I think sadly in the DCD is a Filter to Restrict the Piggyback Source.
But why don’t disable the monitoring of the old host, then? That would prevent the data from being created in the first place.

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Easy solution in some of my bigger monitoring systems. If you migrate a VM to a new cluster/server rename the VM on the old system to something like VMNAME-migrated. Then the data is not assigned to the monitored VM as piggyback data.

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Hi,
can you please explain what DCD means and where I can’t find the filter?

But why don’t disable the monitoring of the old host, then?

I can disable monitoring for this host when all VMs are migrated, but this will take a while and in this transitional period, both PVE hosts has to run.

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That’s also a feasible solution which I didn’t even consider. Thanks for the hint.

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Ah, okay. DCD ist the Dynamic configuration daemon used for Dynamic Host Configuration and unfortunately it doesn’t seem to be available in “Raw” version. I will use the easy solution from Andreas.
Thanks
Alex

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