A device is represented in the device tree based on the name resolution setting: DNS or NETBIOS

The default setting is DNS (Manage->Discovery and Inventory -> Discovery Schedule). Unfortunately there is no way to convert this to IP address for multiple reasons:

A device can be multi homed. Multiple NICs could be configured.

A device can have multiple agents (iDRAC, Server administrator etc.). Each of them can return different IP addresses.

 

Thanks,
Raj Shresta

 

 

I only SNMP to discover server, It will be IP,when my server's hostname is localhost, So,I think OME which isn't get name from srvadmin only! OME will be judge hostname, if it's localhost then IP else hostname ,YES ?

Thanks,

JianhuaZhou from china!

That's correct, if it is localhost, then OME will use IP address as device name.

Thanks,

Raj Shresta

Another issue regarding server name.

 

When a server OS is rebuilt under new name - I can see it still shows in OME under old name.

Old name was removed from DNS long time ago.

How can this be fixed?

Thanks for the update.

Can you ping the device from OME using IP address and check what name shows up in the result?

Regards

Abhijit

Can you try deleting the server from OME device tree and re-discovering it?

Regards

Abhijit

I wish it was so easy. I tried it couple of times already.

Still old name shows

I don't really get it - when you ping IP address you get only IP address in replies.

Maybe you meant to ping by name?

Is reverse DNS zone used in OME to translate host's IP into name?

Sorry. I was not clear in the earlier post. I meant run "ping -a

This would return hostname back if OME server is able to resolve IP address to hostname using reverse DNS lookup.

Regards

Abhijit