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You can read environment variables from a launch file using $(env VAR). You could use this to read the HOSTNAME variable if that is useful, or you could set a custom environment variable on a per-host basis and use that.

A more complete example would be:

<arg name="host" value="$(env HOSTNAME)"/>

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