Using HP SIM 7.0 without a DNS server

[ostjaevel]

Hello!

We have a big environment spanning multiple domains and VLANs.

With customers asking for HW monitoring we wanted to use HP SIM to have a central point to gather all the polling (and the other nifty features).

However, since we don't have access to their DNS servers and for obvious reasons getting a list of about 1k IP addresses isn't going to help very much.

So what we need is a way for HP SIM to get the hostnames of the servers from the Insight Manager - Either through WBEM or SNMP - or pretty much any other way that doesn't involve using the customers DNS servers.

Using a hosts file to fulfill this is a tedious task since every time we add a physical server we need to manually add it to the hostsfile.

Is this possible or am I out of luck?

Best regards,

Sebastian

[shocko]

The hostname will be returned form the polling event so that should be sufficient (provided you are using SNMP) but WBEM will most likely require DNS. COuld you not use a DNS Stub zone or caching zone?