Alarm when hostname (from snmp) is different than the DNS entry?

Hello,

Do you think of a creative way to get an alarm when a device broadcast an hostname that is different than the DNS entry using NPM?

Thanks

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zackm

I assume by 'hostname from snmp' you mean the SysName field. If you are referring to the Node Name in SolarWinds that you can edit, then your trigger would be Nodes.Caption <> Nodes.DNS

-ZackM

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zackm

I assume by 'hostname from snmp' you mean the SysName field. If you are referring to the Node Name in SolarWinds that you can edit, then your trigger would be Nodes.Caption <> Nodes.DNS

-ZackM

http://www.loop1systems.com

planglois

I think that's exactly what I was looking for I will test that next week I will then be able to make sure our Static DNS server is right all the time

Thank you!

bluefunelemental

If it's of any help I find a lot of my audit reports return too many rows due to NULL fields. I prefer to include a temporary "or nodes.dns is not null" so that I can focus clean up on those that are present AND not matching.

Once the clean up is done and the query returns no rows then I remove the NULL clause and start with the next round of finding the nodes that don't have a DNS entry at all.

planglois

That's a good cue Thanks bluefunelemental