topic Re: Link construction in HPSIM in Server Management - Systems Insight Manager

Link construction in HPSIM

Lars Oeschey — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 07:58:33 GMT

Hi,

in our HPSIM the URLs to machines are different for some machines, some have a fqdn entry while others have only the hostname. Since our DNS is changing currently, I'd like all servers to have fqdn entries, where does HPSIM get the information for the name, or how can I change it?

Lars

Re: Link construction in HPSIM

Mikael Rönnbäck — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 11:44:20 GMT

SIM makes a dns lookup to the dns server configured in the TCP/IP settings on your server.
Also remember to check reverse dns lookups so they are correctly configured, i.e. you should be able to do
NSLOOKUP SERVER
and get response
SERVER.MYDOMAIN.COM 1.2.3.4
and
NSLOOKUP 1.2.3.4
and get response
SERVER.MYDOMAIN.COM
(where 1.2.3.4 of course is the IP adress)

Re: Link construction in HPSIM

Lars Oeschey — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 02:49:29 GMT

when I do a nslookup to the servername or the IP, I never get only the hostname back, so that can't be all....

Re: Link construction in HPSIM

Mikael Rönnbäck — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 07:24:22 GMT

From what I know SIM takes the hostname out of the fqdn, and if there should already exist a host with the same name it will instead use the fqdn.
Optionally if you do a manual discovery you can enter the fqdn and it will be used instead of the hostname alone.
For myself I haven't yet found a way to enforce one "standard"