ITEM: AU0562

NetView - How the node's symbol label is determined

Question:

How the node's symbol label is determined

  ipmap uses some subset of the value in the "HOSTNAME" field in the IP
  topology database for the node label.  If the value in the HOSTNAME field
  is an IP address, then ipmap uses the entire IP address as the symbol
  label.  If the values in the HOSTNAME field is a name, then ipmap
  uses the text up to the first "." as the the symbol label.

  At one time, ipmap assumed that if the first character in the
  HOSTNAME field was a digit, then the value was an IP address.
  But, some customers had actual names that began with numbers
  (like 6611router.raleigh.ibm.com), so we changed the code in
  a recent PTF to check all the characters, and if any letters
  are found, we consider the value a name.  You may want to get
  the latest V3 PTF if you have hostnames like this.



Support Line: NetView - How the node's symbol label is determined ITEM: AU0562

Dated: January 1996 Category: N/A

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