Re: [nv-l] Internal NetView UP trap reporting wrong hostname

[Paul <pstroud@bellsouth.net>]

Did you do both a forward and reverse look up on the ip address?
There really is no other place for NetView to get the name....

Paul

Van Order, Drew (US - Hermitage) wrote:

> Me neither, and I found nothing searching the list archives...but then
> the strangest things happen here. Ovorsutil -d shows ustivux02 for all
> entries. I forgot to mention I did check hosts and did a nslookup. It's
> all good. 
>
> Just another day in the Twilight Zone....
>
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> From: owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com [mailto:owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com]
> On Behalf Of James Shanks
> Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 10:14 AM
> To: nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com
> Subject: Re: [nv-l] Internal NetView UP trap reporting wrong hostname
>
>
> Never seen this before.
> reset_ci rebuilds the ovorsd section of the database.  You can check
> what;
> in it with ovorsutil -d.
> Does that show that we think we are on ustivux02 or ustivux01?
>
> If that's correct, then I don't think anything went wrong with the
> reset_ci.
>
> Are you certain that the /etc/hosts file on this box is correct and that
> it
> matches what's in DNS?
>
> James Shanks
> Level 3 Support  for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and Windows
> Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group 
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