Can someone tell me how Orion chooses to select the caption by either sysname or DNS name? Is there a preference? Does it update automatically?
Node caption is populated in the following priority during the node add:
Node Caption DOES NOT get updated automatically any time after the node loading and must be manually edited.
Node caption is populated in the following priority during the node add:
- sysName SNMP value returned (if SNMP responds)
- Reverse DNS lookup
- IP address
Node Caption DOES NOT get updated automatically any time after the node loading and must be manually edited.
Ok so that explains why I have some nodes that have a DNS name for their caption and not the sysname....they were changed to SNMP after they were originally added. I have about 200 that have the DNS and not the sysname.
I will write a SQL query to replace caption with sysname if it is a SNMP device and they don't already match. Thanks.
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