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Re: [nv-l] hostname changed

2004-04-13 11:58:04
Subject: Re: [nv-l] hostname changed
From: James Shanks <jshanks AT us.ibm DOT com>
To: nv-l AT lists.us.ibm DOT com
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 11:51:26 -0400

You should be very skeptical.  What evidence do your network people have that NetView is doing this?  Any at all?

NetView itself has only two tools - ping and SNMP.  And for SNMP it does only snmpget and snmpget_next.  Never snmpset.  

You, as an operator,  could do a set from command line or the MIB Browser of course, provided you know the write community name for the device.  But Cisco devices usually are configured with the snmpset function disabled.  They can also be configured with a write community name unknown to anyone but the administrator.  And this would make it impossible to change the config without logging into the box.  

Could you have someone doing this with Ciscoworks?  


James Shanks
Level 3 Support  for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and Windows
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group



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Can Netview change a device's hostname on its own ? I don't mean in the
Netview database or on the map but on the device itself.
Network administrators believe Netview changes hostname in running config of
some Cisco devices. I am rather doubtful.

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