DNS names are not showing

[Darleen Crowley]

All of our servers have multiple IP addresses. For some reason the System name is coming up as one of the secondary IP addresses instead of the DNS name for the localy hosted dns zone. Other than manually editing each individual server's property name field, is there a way to 'fix' this? Thank you.

[Ervinck Kevin]

Try adding your server via 'manual discovery' and fill out the hostname instead of the main IP address. This usually does the trick for me.

[Darleen Crowley]

Thank you for your information. That does work. I know of a few other workarounds too, however, there are too many servers to do manual discovery with. I am trying to find the reason why some servers System Name come up with their respective DNS names and why others are coming up as one of the IP addresses on the box. If I can 'fix' this setting on the servers, I can re-discover all of them.

[Mariano De Luca]

You'll need to configure your REVERSE DNS, had the same issues and SIM discovers via IP which in turn is resolved using reverse DNS if not on the same domain.

[Ervinck Kevin]

Mariano, indeed that is correct, just create a PTR record aside of each a-record.

[asc_3]

Hi,
Try using Options-security-System Link Configuration and select the option "use the systems full DNS".
Run a re-identification (or delete and re-discover) the systems. This hopefully will resolve the issue

[Darleen Crowley]

I thank all of you for your feedback. I will respond again with results. I was out of the office for a few days.