Web-based System Manager identifies machines in the Management Environment by the exact name that the user provides when the machine is added to the environment. This means that a machine that is added with both a fully qualified host name, as well as an abbreviation for the fully qualified host name, will be listed twice in the Management Environment, as if they are two different computers.
For example, if your domain name is mycorp.com, you will be able to create a managed machine in the Management Environment called machine_name, as well as machine_name.mycorp.com. To Web-based System Manager, these are two different machines. A warning dialog that informs you that another machine has the same first element hostname, thus alerting you that both machine_name and machine_name.mycorp.com will be added. if you do not intend to have both machine names in the Management Environment, you can take preventive action.
You can use either of two methods to add a machine to Web-based System Manager:
Console menu:
Web-based System Manager Management Environment plug-in:
After the user has launched the add dialog, you can add the machine in one of three ways:
To add a single machine called chocolate.austin.ibm.com:
The assigned computer name appears in the Navigation Area and Navigation Pane. A message below the progress bar states Successfully added... chocolate.austin.ibm.com.
To add a single machine and verify existence on the network:
The assigned computer name appears in Navigation Area and Navigation Pane. If the host does not exist on the network, a Web-based System Manager error dialog displays, stating that the following host cannot be contacted.
To add a list of machines from a file:
A message below the progress bar indicates which machine is currently being added. After it is complete, a message displays stating Successfully completed. The added computers appear in Navigation Area and Navigation Pane.
To add machines from domain:
A message below the progress bar indicates which machine is currently being added. After it is complete, a message displays stating Successfully completed. The added computers appear in Navigation Area and Navigation Pane.