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

[Paul <pstroud@bellsouth.net>]

Drew,
Do you use NIS? Might be another place to check.....check your netsvc.conf
to see what order you are using for lookups.

Paul

Paul wrote:

> NetView is most dependant on the reverse lookups as we only
> get the IP address with the network packets.
>
> Paul
>
> Van Order, Drew (US - Hermitage) wrote:
>
> > Think this might be something--not getting reverse lookup--although I
> > figured it would use hosts if it did not get a name in return.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com [mailto:owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com]
> > On Behalf Of Paul
> > Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 10:56 AM
> > To: nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com
> > Subject: Re: [nv-l] Internal NetView UP trap reporting wrong hostname
> >
> >
> > 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....
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > 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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