Hello there, the environment is Netview 5.0 under AIX 4.2.1. RS-6000 240.

The scenario:
There are two routers; Router1 has only its main interface registered in
the dns (i.e.: 111.222.1.1), Router2 has every interface (approx. 10)
registered in the dns under different names; this is done mainly for
administrative purposes.

The problem:
Our Router1 for some reason changes its name on the topology map to the
name of one of the interfaces of Router2 (always the same interface name).
This is a nightmare for us since we trigger alarms based on the device name
under the topology map.

Is this a Netview issue or unique to our network? In a test server I'm
running 5.1.1 with the same results. I have run database utilities but the
device after a while picks the wrong name again.

I don't think this is a dns issue either.

Thanks for any help.

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Jorge A. Jiles
Network Analyst
Computing & Network Services
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada