Re: [nv-l] hostname changed

[James Shanks <jshanks@us.ibm.com>]

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

"TURATI, JEAN-MICHEL" <JEAN-MICHEL.TURATI@disney.com>
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04/13/2004 11:03 AM

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Subject	[nv-l] hostname changed

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.

Jean-Michel TURATI
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