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Host Names Missing for most of the Hosts in CBD

TGrounds
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I have been running CBD for a while and continue to have issues with it pulling in the Host Name on the hosts connected to my switches and Wireless.  I have verified my DNS settings and ensured proper resolution.  

Here is a listing of my Inventory (sorted by IP address for reference) and you see that IP addresses associated with my switches and WAP devices have the right hostname.  192.168.1.10 pulled the host name from DNS as did 192.168.1.15.  However, none of the other entries have pulled the Host Name.  This is also consistent with the Wireless reports where the host names are all blank.

 

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 Here is a snip of my DNS and you see what is available -

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 Why would it only choose to pull in 2 of the host names?

Here is a snip of my Wireless client report and the hostnames here are also blank but in the DNS

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 Any help is welcome.  I have been trying to correct this for a while.

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Mark Fang
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

CBD does not retrieve hostnames directly from DNS. It relies on limited methods to learn hostnames. For wireless clients, please ensure that the 'Local Profiling' setting is enabled for the SSID on your CBW AP.

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Mark Fang
Cisco Employee
Cisco Employee

CBD does not retrieve hostnames directly from DNS. It relies on limited methods to learn hostnames. For wireless clients, please ensure that the 'Local Profiling' setting is enabled for the SSID on your CBW AP.

Thank you - I found that setting in my WAP and now I'm seeing the host names for the wireless devices (mostly).  On my switches - I ensured that LLDP and CDP are enabled and that the advertisement is Host Name.  I will see if I begin to see the host names for my wired devices.  Thanks for the assistance!