topic Forcing Equipment Names in Server Management - Systems Insight Manager

Forcing Equipment Names

William_114 — Tue, 29 Jun 2004 13:54:40 GMT

In IM7 you were able to force devices to take names other than what was provided by DNS, using the "Manual Discovery", "Edit Device." Can anyone tell me where this feature has moved to in SIM?

Re: Forcing Equipment Names

David Claypool — Tue, 29 Jun 2004 16:08:30 GMT

The closest thing would be to create a local hosts file.

Re: Forcing Equipment Names

William_114 — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 07:44:24 GMT

David I have tried using SIM to create a hosts file. I create the hosts file called default by selecting the initialize contents with systems loaded from the central management server, sorted by name. I then find the device I want to change and modify the name portions. How do I get these changes to take effect? The device still shows up by its original name.

Re: Forcing Equipment Names

David Claypool — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 10:47:02 GMT

Since the OS does the name resolution, you have to give it to the OS. In HP-UX or Linux it is the file /etc/hosts in Windows find the file \%WINDIR%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts. After editing the file as you want it, delete the systems and rediscover.

Re: Forcing Equipment Names

William_114 — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 10:54:23 GMT

David these particular servers that I have this problem with are located in the DMZ. They are our external web servers.

Example:
I have server BEPC01, SIM discovers it as OWA, because this server is used for external access to E-mail. If I change the local host file will it in anyway affect external web access?