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Subject: Re: sysName
From: "CATALINA MARTINEZ" <CATALINA.MARTINEZ@tlc.state.tx.us>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 09:12:22 -0600
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Thank you, I will try this (keeping my fingers crossed).

>>> shochste@us.ibm.com 10/31/01 08:56AM >>>
Catalina,

The only "clean" way to do this that I can think of:

Assumption:   You are not managing over 5000 nodes (or this may cause
performance issue)

1. Configure your AIX box to use /etc/hosts first, then DNS.
2. Write a script that goes through all the nodes that NetView knows about,
does and snmpget of sysname and stores the data in /etc/hosts
     (create a collection of just "nodes", then use nvutil to list the
members of that collection to process)
3. After storing the data about the node, it does a demandpoll of the node.
At that time NetView should recognize the new hostname and update the
selection name

I have not tested this, but I think it would be worth a try.

Thanks,
Stephen Hochstetler            shochste@us.ibm.com
ITSO Tivoli Coordinator - Austin
Office - 512-436-8564       FAX - 512-436-1991

ITSO redbooks at  http://www.redbooks.ibm.com


                                                                                
                                                                 
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Hi All,

Is it possible to get netview to pull the sysName and use it as the
Selection Name on cisco devices and servers(AIX, NT, 2000)?

CiscoWorks can do this and I have been asked to get Netview to do the same.
(from my previous emails, we are trying to get away from the host file)

Any suggestions?

Catalina Martinez
AIX 4.3.3.7
Framework 3.7.1
Netview 6.0.2


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Thank you, I will try this (keeping my fingers crossed).

>>> shochste@us.ibm.com 10/31/01 08:56AM >>>
Catalina,

The only "clean" way to do this that I can think of:

Assumption:   You are not managing over 5000 nodes (or this may cause
performance issue)

1. Configure your AIX box to use /etc/hosts first, then DNS.
2. Write a script that goes through all the nodes that NetView knows about,
does and snmpget of sysname and stores the data in /etc/hosts
     (create a collection of just "nodes", then use nvutil to list the
members of that collection to process)
3. After storing the data about the node, it does a demandpoll of the node.
At that time NetView should recognize the new hostname and update the
selection name

I have not tested this, but I think it would be worth a try.

Thanks,
Stephen Hochstetler            shochste@us.ibm.com
ITSO Tivoli Coordinator - Austin
Office - 512-436-8564       FAX - 512-436-1991

ITSO redbooks at  http://www.redbooks.ibm.com


                                                                                                                                                
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Hi All,

Is it possible to get netview to pull the sysName and use it as the
Selection Name on cisco devices and servers(AIX, NT, 2000)?

CiscoWorks can do this and I have been asked to get Netview to do the same.
(from my previous emails, we are trying to get away from the host file)

Any suggestions?

Catalina Martinez
AIX 4.3.3.7
Framework 3.7.1
Netview 6.0.2


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