topic Re: System Name problems in Server Management - Systems Insight Manager

System Name problems

Hans Muller — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 05:35:57 GMT

I have snmp devices that do not resolve to a system name. The IP address floods the System Name field. There seems to be no way to change the system name once it has been discovered. I have made DNS entires and host file entries after which I can ping the device by name but doing another discover continues to place the IP address in the System Name field. Any suggestions would be helpful.
nslookup is working for those systems on CMS.
The servers are registered on another DNS server. DNS-Server is added in TCP/IP settings.

Re: System Name problems

David Claypool — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 06:11:10 GMT

From the CMS use nslookup to make sure you can resolve IP to name AND name to IP. The only place hpSIM gets name information is from DNS. If it can't resolve there is no other place to look.

Re: System Name problems

Rob Buxton — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 13:59:34 GMT

Just to backup David, name to IP translatetion is not enough, nor is just IP to name, you have to have both for HPSIM to correctly identify the device.

Re: System Name problems

Hans Muller — Mon, 15 Mar 2004 02:27:27 GMT

Thanx, that's looks to be the problem.
IP to name working. Name to IP not functioning.