mailto:david.lloyd@jboss.com wrote:     In terms of implementation, my few minutes of research on the topic indicate that the best way to calculate a default node name at boot would be as follows. 1. Define a system property, "jboss.host.qualified.name" or just "host.qualified.name", which, if unspecified, defaults to the value of:1. the HOSTNAME env var, or if that is not specified, 2. the COMPUTERNAME env var, or if that is not specified, 3. the value of InetAddress.getLocalHost().getHostName(), or if that does not turn up anything, 4. a default value such as "unknown-host.unknown-domain" 2. Define a system property, "jboss.host.name" or just "host.name", which, if unspecified, defaults to host portion of the above property 3. Define a system property, "jboss.node.name" which, if unspecified, defaults to the value of the above property