HPSIM 5.3 SP1 New Hosts File Format?

[Tom McGuigan]

Using a hosts file for discovery pre-5.3 SP1 upgrade the format we always used was {IP dnsname}. However, post 5.3 SP1 upgrade we now find the old format results in NOTHING discovered. Instead, testing has shown that using ONLY the {dnsname} in the hosts file works. Moreover, using the old format appears to work (viewing log results of each nodes' identification), however a search for any newly discovered node yields no results. The fix...for now at least...use ONLY the dnsname. (Using ONLY IP address MAY also work, but have not tried that yet).

[Calvin Staples]

IP Addresses and address ranges works well too. The only downside is that a virtual node name may replace the actual host name.