Re: ipdevpoll does not set sysname unless snmp is enabled

On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 10:20:12 +0200 Ingeborg Hellemo <ingeborg.hellemo@uit.no> wrote:

During migration from old NAV (3.5.6) to new NAV (3.9.1) I "Bulk import"-ed all our hosts. I notice that ipdevpoll does not set correct sysname on hosts that does not run a configured snmpd. [snip] I presume this is a bug.

The fact is that this has always been so with NAV; even getDeviceData did not update data for devices that weren't SNMP-monitored. This issue has come up multiple times lately, so I do think we should label it a bug and fix it, yes. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/nav/+bug/890142 -- Morten Brekkevold UNINETT