Switches are getting discovered even-though there is a mismatch of host names between "json" and "Actual switch host name"
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Switches are getting discovered even-though there is a mismatch of host names between "json" and "Actual switch host name"

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Article ID: 323694

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Products

VMware

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:
Switches are getting discovered even though there is a mismatch of hostnames between "JSON" and "Actual switch hostname" 

Below is the sample of the ossue noticed

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In JSON file has the switch name as below. 
"id": "Leaf-2",
"name": "sc2-t1-s5224-l2",

However on the switch the name is configured as : 
sc2-t1-s5148-l2# show startup-configuration
!
ip vrf default
!
exec-timeout 0
hostname sc2-t1-s5148-l2

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In the switch, there is a mismatch between the switch names in JSON and on the physical switch but it is still getting discovered.

Resolution

It will be fixed in the next release

Workaround:
Currently there is no workaround