System Name on SIM

[Ian Alden]

I think this has been discussed before... but how does SIM resolve the system name if DNS is NOT used on the network? I am getting just the IP address of servers coming up instead of the system name on the device list. We redirect to a read-only BIND DNS which we cannot alter and use NT4 and WINS- does it use WINS instead somehow?

[David Claypool · Accepted solution]

Since it is multi-platform, we didn't build in any WINS support. Your alternative is a hosts file containing IP address, DNS name and FQDN that you would populate on the hpSIM management server. The location would be %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\drivers\etc. Windows should already have a file there with an entry for "127.0.0.1 localhost" for you to add to.

[Ian Alden]

Thanks... adding the 'malformed' server names or those that just came up as IP addresses resolved this problem.