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Frank,
Yes, you can do what you have suggested.
It
is a simple matter of creating a list of devices to feed into a nmdemandpoll
script.
This will cause netview to resolve the new
name and update the map accordingly.
However. what you are planning to do, is NOT trivial if you have any automation that is
dependent
upon a hard-coded hostname.
Be aware that a hostname
change will affect everything that is dependent upon a hard-coded
hostname.
Off the top of my head, this is what could
be impacted:
1. Rulesets
2. Smartsets
3. Mid Level Managers
4. scripts (I have 68 scripts
that
would be affected)
5. Event customization
(trapd)
6. TEC rules
7. Static routes
8. snmpCollect configuration
Historical data would probably have to be
purged or updated with new names too.
SNMP data collection
Router Syslogs
I'm sure there are more.
Be careful what you ask for!
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Don Davis
First Citizens Bank
Raleigh,
NC. 27603-3526
Frank,
You can write a script and use /usr/OV/bin/nmdemandpoll
<selection name> . In side your script you can have it read all the
selection names from a file and do a demand poll on each.
This is on AIX, you did not mention which OS you are using. I did a
similar thing last year. I dump the contents from the smartsets and used
them
as the input variable/file.
Catalina
>>> "DePhillips, Frank"
<fdephillips AT McLeodUSA DOT com> 07/16/03 09:56AM
>>>
We are changing are naming
standard and all routers will be changing names at one time. What is
the
best way to do this all at once? I can do a demand poll on one device
at
a time but can I do it all at once?
Thanks
Frank
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