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Network Discovery - FQDN

When we run a Network Discovery for servers they get added with the Netbios name, is there a way to switch it to add the node as the FQDN?

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shuth

From what I have seen, I believe this is the behaviour when a node gets added to the system.

If using SNMP/WMI, it will use the detected System Name
If no system name, it will do a reverse lookup of the IP address against DNS
If no DNS entry, it will use the IP address

You could probably do a bulk update against the database if you want the DNS name as the hostname/caption.

CAVEAT - BE CAREFUL RUNNING QUERIES DIRECTLY AGAINST THE DATABSE. THERE IS NO UNDO BUTTON.

You can view the current captions/DNS/SysName values with this query:

SELECT Caption, DNS, SysName FROM NodesData

And update the values with something like this (utilise the WHERE condition so you don't update every node):

UPDATE NodesData
SET Caption = DNS
WHERE

Edit: If you want a more manual approach, you could use something like this:
thwack.solarwinds.com/.../bulk-node-name-caption-change

You could probably use SWQL as well if you want to go down the scripting path but I don't have any examples handy. A Thwack search should turn something up though.