ITEM: DB6459L

snmp trap is sent with reporting address 127.0.0.1

.
env:    4.2, F30

prob:   customer has trap setup on a particular RS Machine that reports
        to another machine running netview
.act:   the customer beleives that the trap is getting to the netview
        system but it comes up as localhost as the reporting machine
.       there are two machines in question
        NV6000 is the machine running NetView 172.20.2.254
        MIS2   is the machine sending traps   172.20.2.4

        trap line is still:
.       trap    ottaway     nv6000      1.2.3    fe
.       
        no resolv.conf file, customer is using /etc/hosts/

RESOLUTION:found that the hostname was set to
[mis2] and in /etc/hosts they have
127.0.0.1   localhost   loopback [mis2]
snmpd uses the hostname value and from that gets 127.0.0.1. Wanted 
to know if there is a way around this because someone set up the
hosts file this way to allow the COSE desktop to work
with HACMP.  There is no way around this in snmpd configuration.



Support Line: snmp trap is sent with reporting address 127.0.0.1 ITEM: DB6459L

Dated: June 1997 Category: N/A

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