https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/system-name-on-sim/m-p/3246198#M2423 Since it is multi-platform, we didn't build in any WINS support. Your alternative is a hosts file containing IP address, DNS name and FQDN that you would populate on the hpSIM management server. The location would be %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\drivers\etc. Windows should already have a file there with an entry for "127.0.0.1 localhost" for you to add to. Tue, 13 Apr 2004 10:15:08 GMT David Claypool 2004-04-13T10:15:08Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/system-name-on-sim/m-p/3246197#M2422 I think this has been discussed before... but how does SIM resolve the system name if DNS is NOT used on the network? I am getting just the IP address of servers coming up instead of the system name on the device list. We redirect to a read-only BIND DNS which we cannot alter and use NT4 and WINS- does it use WINS instead somehow? Tue, 13 Apr 2004 04:50:11 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/system-name-on-sim/m-p/3246197#M2422 Ian Alden 2004-04-13T04:50:11Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/system-name-on-sim/m-p/3246198#M2423 Since it is multi-platform, we didn't build in any WINS support. Your alternative is a hosts file containing IP address, DNS name and FQDN that you would populate on the hpSIM management server. The location would be %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\drivers\etc. Windows should already have a file there with an entry for "127.0.0.1 localhost" for you to add to. Tue, 13 Apr 2004 10:15:08 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/system-name-on-sim/m-p/3246198#M2423 David Claypool 2004-04-13T10:15:08Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/system-name-on-sim/m-p/3246199#M2424 Thanks... adding the 'malformed' server names or those that just came up as IP addresses resolved this problem. Wed, 14 Apr 2004 02:47:21 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/system-name-on-sim/m-p/3246199#M2424 Ian Alden 2004-04-14T02:47:21Z