```Hello how are you I hope you are well I deployed a fleet

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```Hello how are you I hope you are well I deployed a fleet of which I deployed osquery agents Getting to a certain number of agents often when a new host is deployed it downgrades another one from the list I get the following errors on the output to the osquery server ``` 1 osquery distributed read ts 2022 09 05T15 20 12 164277378Z Sep 5 15 20 15 osquery fleet 69161 component http err authentication error invalid node key uLuK4hiUVdU3hZVXS5dcivDzQFpwfAX level info path api v1 osquery config ts 2022 09 05T15 20 15 9287988Z

Kathy Satterlee · Answer

Hi < Boubacary Diallo> That s certainly odd behavior A few questions 1 How many hosts do you have enrolled 2 How are you deploying osquery 3 What are you using as the Could those be duplicated across hosts 4 Once you reach a specific number of hosts do all new hosts replace existing ones or only some If only specific hosts do those share anything in common that stands out 5 Are there any errors in the Fleet server logs that coincide with the osquery errors

Boubacary Diallo · Answer

```Hi thank you very much I found the solution By the way we had to clone certain machines on hyper V so they had the same uid so fleet compares then downgrades one saying it s the same machine I solved this in the YAML configuratipo file I chained host identifier hostname instead of uid Thank you very much for your availability ```

Kathy Satterlee · Answer

That s great I thought it was likely to be something along these lines

Boubacary Diallo · Answer

oui ca été ainsi Merci infiniment