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Client discovery - client name display order/priority

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Veröffentlicht am: 2009-05-07       Aktualisiert am: 2011-01-14

Produkt:
Endpoint Protection

Module(s):
Installation, Distribution, Upgrade, Configuration

Operations System(s):
Windows XP 32 bits
Windows Vista 32 bits
Windows 2000
Windows XP 64 bits
Windows Vista 64 bits
Windows 2003 Server

Problembeschreibung

Some machines turn up with DNS names, while most turn up with NetBIOS names. Both test clients managed via msi-installer turned up in "Lost and Found" with their DNS names. The strange thing is that one of them suddenly changed name to the NetBIOS name.

Problemlösung

The data about a client is displayed in this priority:

  1. Alias (set by administrator)
  2. DNS name
  3. NetBIOS name
  4. IP address.

The NetBIOS names are reported by the passive discovery module. If a client is only known by its IP address (as a result of active discovery or manual entry, for example), it will be shown with its IP address until a reverse DNS lookup has been done (if enabled).