Just to be difficult, I always get the short name, and most of our devices
have forward and reverse lookups in DNS.
What P's me off is that the label doesn't get updated if the reverse entry
wasn't in DNS, but was later. In that scenario, the object name gets
changed to the FQDN but the map label stays as the IP address.
Leslie Clark seems to think this is normal though. (Am I correct??)
Regards,
Peter Anderson
Senior Communications Analyst
Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do
not necessarily represent those of Westpac Banking Corporation.
-----Original Message-----
From: Treptow, Craig [mailto:Treptow.Craig AT principal DOT com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 4:03 AM
To: 'IBM NetView Discussion'
Subject: RE: [NV-L] Fully Qualified Hostnames
I think this is just a question of how you resolve your names. If my
devices have reverse DNS entries, then they get the FQDN in the Netview map.
If not, they will get a shorter name, probably based on how the device is
configured, or sometimes no name at all, just an IP address.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: danny AT uk.ibm DOT com [mailto:danny AT uk.ibm DOT com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 10:32 AM
> To: nv-l AT tkg DOT com
> Subject: [NV-L] Fully Qualified Hostnames
>
>
>
>
> Question number two of the day.
>
> Can I make NetView display the fully qualified Hostname of a
> device rather
> than the bit before the first "."?
>
> I have been trawling the manuals and on-line reference
> information to find
> out how to answer this, so I hope I haven't missed something really
> obvious:
>
> I did find one bit of information that said to put the fully
> qualified name
> in to a local /etc/hosts file and set hosts=local,bind in
> /etc/netsvc.conf.
> However, this requires a long hosts file in my case, which pretty much
> obviates DNS and will require a lot of management.
>
> What I want is a flag I can set somewhere!
>
> Here's hoping!
>
> Danny Williams
> Tivoli & AIX Specialist
> IBM Global Services - Integrated Technology Services
> mailto:danny AT uk.ibm DOT com
> Tel: 665520 (01926-465520) -- MOBX: 275520 (07967-275520)
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