I've just installed Tivoli Netview 5.1.1 on a host in our IBM SP frame
and when discovery was done the other nodes in the frame were identified
by the names on the frame interface and not for their network
interfaces.

I've already completely deleted the object representing the SP network,
and changed the object names of the symbols and their remaining
interfaces to the hostname on the external interface, but when I create
a collection that has these nodes in it, their symbols always show up
with the internal interface name.

Doing an ovobjprint|grep spf shows that two fields retain the original
name:  11 and 224 which are IP Name and IP Hostname, respectively.
These two fields appear to be defined in the IP Map "object" and cannot
be changed through the GUI...at least not so far as I can see.

I've had similar problems with other machines where Netview seems to
arbitrarily assign the name of the object/symbol based on one of the
interfaces and not on the machine's internal hostname...I find this very
frustrating, since we have a few machines with multiple interfaces for
different purposes, but only refer to them by their internal name.  In
the case of a Sun I've had this problem with, I cannot change the object
name at all...I get told that it already exists, and I can find the
entries for the hostname in the ovobjdb, but there is no object I can
locate in the gui with this name...very strange.

I'd rather not have to rename symbols every time I create a new
collection, and I can't believe that there is no way to assign
object/symbol name based on machine hostname.

The easy solution would be to do a global replacement in the database,
but I can't find any way to do that in documentation or in the
faq/knowledgebase at the Tivoli support site.

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Running Netview 5.1.1 on an IBM RS6000 SP node model 9076 with AIX 4.3
in a mixed AIX/Solaris/MVS/VM/NT environment.

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Sean Aaron
UNIX System Administrator
University of California
Office of the President