SIM discovering servers not in hosts file

[Ed Cox]

Hi..
We are discovering multi-homed servers using a hosts file (and an lmhosts file) and not Autodiscovery. The two hosts files only define the “Public/DMZ” address of the production servers. For whatever reason SIM seems to have detected some of these multihomed servers on the second network that doesn’t have an entry in the hosts file. When this happens I typically get an IP address as the server name in SIM and seem to have issues with inventory of the server leaving me in a very inconsistent state in terms of the information I can extract from SIM with reports that has good content. To my questions:

Is there some recommended procedure that I can use in my environment to avoid these issues?

Thanks!

[Rob Buxton]

Ed,
I wasn't aware that HPSIM used the Hosts file for discovery, I thought that was just used for name resolution. Could be wrong though I've never used a Hosts file.
Does this mean you have no entries in the Discovery Section?
Are the discovered Servers in the same address range as the HPSIM Server?

[Ed Cox]

Good point Rob...I should have put quote marks around discovery.
(this actually is at a customer site, so I'll check tomorrow on your follow up questions).
Thanks for jumping in!
Ed

[Dan White_1]

Hi Ed,

I too am using the host file method of discovery. I have found that all blades in your enclosure will be discovered even if there are no entries in the hosts file. For those that don't know, you can have SIM just discover from a hosts file by adding "$HostFileName" in the IP range box in auto discovery. The hosts files are stored in "C:\Program Files\HP\Systems Insight Manager\config\discovery\hosts"

Dan