Well, stop/starting netmon usually does it, but sometimes an ovtopofix
is required. I have seen messages in ovtopofix output where it is fixing
conflicts in the name. One downside to letting it change it by itself is
that
the Selection Name of interface cards is not changed. They remain
oldhostname:inteface. So I prefer to rediscover the node, especially
if I intend to do any automation based on names. Basically, it takes a
configuration poll to get the name changed.
Cordially,
Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
Detroit
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HI Leslie,
A natural extension question to this topic is can you force NV to re-label
symbols?
We have several seen NV discover devices a day or two before they make it
into DNS (we have a weekly change cycle on DNS). Therefore, the label is
the IP address.
On subsequent config cycles (after DNS updated) the object name changes but
not the label.
Any ideas?
Peter Anderson
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From: Leslie Clark [mailto:lclark@us.ibm.com]
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Netview V6 already retrieves this information and stores it in the
routerSysname
field in the object database. You can see it in Tools..Display Object Info.
You can
also extract it from the database (nvdbformat comes to mind) and use it to
generate
updates to your /etc/hosts file or DNS. What you cannot do is get Netview
to use it
for labeling. I know Openview will use it, but I am glad that Netview does
not, because
I have seen some real garbage in customer's sysName configurations.
Overriding names in /etc/hosts remains the best way of controlling the
labeling of
devices in the map.
Cordially,
Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
Detroit
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Hi. I was wondering if it was possible to setup Netview 6.0.1 (NT) to
retrieve the sysname (.iso.org.dod.internet.mgmt.mib-2.system.sysName) on a
Cisco device rather than it simply look for a host or dns entry when it
discovers the device on the network. I can setup a perl script to do this
but I thought I'd check to see if Netview does it.
thanx.
T. Clarke
The Island, ECN.
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