# Best way to show homenetwork in dashboard (no fixed ip)

**URL:** <https://community.netdata.cloud/t/best-way-to-show-homenetwork-in-dashboard-no-fixed-ip/3762>\
**Category:** Help\
**Tags:** configuration, dashboards, agent\
**Created:** [January 18, 2023, 10:25am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/best-way-to-show-homenetwork-in-dashboard-no-fixed-ip/3762 "2023-01-18T10:25:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![NorbertK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@NorbertK](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/NorbertK)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 10:25am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/best-way-to-show-homenetwork-in-dashboard-no-fixed-ip/3762/1 "2023-01-18T10:25:14Z")

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I have some virtual machines running in my home network and some running at a providers site and I would like to see them all in the dashboard. Problem is that the homenetwork has no fixed ip adress .

How can this be done ?

More a network question I fear, but I assume someone did something like that already.

Thanks a lot

Norbert

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**Author:** ![Christopher\_Akritid1](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/christopher_akritid1/32/419_2.png) [@Christopher\_Akritid1](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/Christopher_Akritid1)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 3:24pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/best-way-to-show-homenetwork-in-dashboard-no-fixed-ip/3762/2 "2023-01-18T15:24:47Z")

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IP address doesn’t matter at all, I’m not sure what exactly you’re having trouble with. Even if the host’s hostname keeps changing, you can configure a different hostname in netdata.conf for Netdata to use.

The true identifying information of a host for Netdata is under `/var/lib/netdata`, a directory that needs to be persisted across netdata restarts. Specifically, all hosts have a GUID under the `registry` directory and if the host is connected to the cloud, the identifying info is under `cloud.d`.

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**Author:** ![NorbertK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@NorbertK](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/NorbertK)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 3:51pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/best-way-to-show-homenetwork-in-dashboard-no-fixed-ip/3762/3 "2023-01-18T15:51:23Z")

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Presumably i was not clear.

I thought about the dasboard in the cloud and thought that the cloud must be able to reach the nodes. And that would be a problem if the address of this node changes. If the communication is initiated by the node (which I don’t know) there should be no problem

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**Author:** ![Christopher\_Akritid1](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/christopher_akritid1/32/419_2.png) [@Christopher\_Akritid1](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/Christopher_Akritid1)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 4:45pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/best-way-to-show-homenetwork-in-dashboard-no-fixed-ip/3762/4 "2023-01-18T16:45:29Z")

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Indeed, the node opens the connection to the cloud. The cloud app itself isn’t even aware of the host’s IP, which is relevant only to the proxies at the edge.