Devices discovered with the IP address as the name

Products

• CA Infrastructure Management
• CA Performance Management

Issue/Introduction

In the advanced section of the discovery profile, you can select the order of priority for device naming using Host Name, System Name, or IP Address.

Environment

CA Performance Mangement

Resolution

In the advanced section of the discovery profile, you can select the order of priority for device naming using Host Name, System Name, or IP Address.
If you change the order and re-run the discovery profile, the naming will use the priority specified.

The default order is:

Host Name (DNS name)
System Name (sysName.0 from SNMP)
IP Address