managed node return error with IP inconsistent

[roy1]

Hi

I got error messages "The IP address for hermes is not consistent".
This seems to be name and IP resolution issue.
I have checked the them by:

/etc/hosts
nslookup
/opt/OV/support/gethost hermes

They all returned the correct name and IP. Any other possibility to cause this error?
Thanks in advance.

Yi Zhang
yzhang@cv.net

 

[cgainey]

Roy1,

Where and when are you receiving this message? NNM server? ITO Operations server? (i.e. an event or browser message)

I would try looking a little further in the name to IP resolution area. I'm not really familiar with the gethost command provided by OV, but I am going to assume that the name it returns is resolved locally on that server, as well as the hosts file and nslookup if the /etc/nsswitch.conf file is configured to look in files first.

Assuming that you are using NIS+ try looking in your host map for this information.
niscat hosts.org_dir | grep 'hostname'
do you get the same information returned. I would think that other communication troubles exist if nis does not match what/who the hosts really is.

<cag>

 

[nfaber]

Yi,

Are you using Cisco HSRP? If so that will sometimes confuse OV.