Editting existing devices

[Michael Wiederspiel]

Any idea how to edit an existing device without deleting it and re-adding a new device? Thanks.

[Craig McKellar]

What is it you're trying to edit?

[Michael Wiederspiel]

I would like to update the server name and/or IP address. There used to be an Edit function in the Discovery section in IM 7.0

[Anthony Junio]

Recently, I upgraded successfully from IM7 to HP SIM 4.1 and I am also wondering if there is a way to edit the SYSTEM NAME. Any info on this would be appreciated as I have searched the technical documents for an answer on this.

[Mark Schwengels]

I am looking for the same info!

[Anthony Junio]

Well after further research, I found that HP SIM pretty much relies on DNS. You must have matching forward and reverse lookup records for your system. If there is any kind of conflict with name resolution, HP SIM will use the IP Address as the system name.

There are good points to this and there are bad points because most of us do deal with servers in DMZ's and web servers that we load balance through DNS, etc. In these cases you will have no choice, but to make entries on the local host file of the HP SIM server to have the right name displayed.

[Anthony Junio]

I forgot to include this great command line tool to test how HP SIM will resolve the name before you go through the hassle of adding and deleting systems in the SIM Console:

mxgethostname -n xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP Address of the system in question.

RUn this command on the HP SIM Server before adding a system to see how the system name will be displayed in HP SIM.