Re: [NV-L] Backup Interface Discovery Issue

["Ahsan Ali" <ahsanali@gmail.com>]

What James said - take a look at what the PTR records in DNS are pointing to.

You might want the PTR records for 10.10.10.10 AND 10.10.10.11 to point to MSGSMTP01

-Ahsan

On 9/1/06, Jane Curry <jane.curry@skills-1st.co.uk> wrote:

Try putting the primary interface (or name) in your netmon seedfile to
force discovery by that interface.  Other than that, as James says, I'd
double check your DNS.
Cheers,
Jane

Larry Fagan wrote:
> Hi guys,
> I'm having issues with backup Ip address discovery in NetView 7.1.3. I
> have auto discovery turned on. I have a wintel server MSGSMTP with two
> interfaces. Primary & backup interface. We need to monitor only
> primary interface. This has a right entry in DNS for both primary &
> backup NIC. But Netview discovers both interfaces but somehow the
> hostname is assigning as backup interface hostname.
> example as below:
> MSGSMTP01 - Primary - IP- 10.10.10.10
> MSGSMTP01B - Backup NIC - 10.10.10.11
>
> Netview discovers as MPSMGT01B - has both Ip addresses(primary &
> backup). I deleted and still discovers as same.Netview should discover
> as is in DNS name with primary interface as MSGSMTP01. Am i right?
> Hope my question is clear.
> Please help me..
> Larry
>
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