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ahegler

Posted 3/14/2007 9:11:06 AM

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One of my locations has 50+ switches and they decided to change their hostname naming convention. Now I have a bunch of misnamed devices in whatsup. The display name is typically discovered during the initial discovery if SNMP is configured; however, is there a way to "re-discover" the display name of the device while still maintaining all of its monitors, actions, etc such as through a polling script? I can obviously manually change each individual switch display name, but that would be time consuming.

Thanks,
-Andy

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LLS71

Posted 3/14/2007 10:52:51 AM

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Hi!

Download the script "Update Name" from the Ipswitch Active Script page ( http://www.ipswitch.com/support/whatsup_professional/scripts/index.asp ), or just cut and paste it into WhatsUp ;-) :

// Name: Update device name
// Description: Update device name based on SNMP sysName variable
// Language: JScript

var oSnmpRqst = new ActiveXObject("CoreAsp.SnmpRqst") ;

var nDeviceID = Context.GetProperty("DeviceID") ;

var oResult = oSnmpRqst.Initialize(nDeviceID) ;

if (oResult.Failed) {
Context.SetResult(1, "Initialization error " ) ;
}
else {
var oResult = oSnmpRqst.Get("1.3.6.1.2.1.1.5.0"); // sysName.0
if (oResult.Failed) {
Context.SetResult(1, "Couldn't get sysName.0 variable" ) ;
}
else {
  var oDb = Context.GetDB ;

  if (oDb == null) {
   Context.SetResult(1, "DB Connection error" ) ;
  }
  else {
   var oRs = new ActiveXObject("ADODB.Recordset");
   var sSql = "UPDATE Device SET sDisplayName='" + oResult.GetPayload + "' WHERE nDeviceID = " + nDeviceID;
   oDb.Execute (sSql) ;
  }
}
}