Configuring automatic
name resolution
The TM_USEAUTONAME option in the
name-resolver.conf file enables you to configure the Name Resolution probe to
automatically resolve system names by using the naming sources in the order
that you specify. By default, the Name Resolution probe attempts to resolve
system names by using the naming-source sequence that is shown in
Default order of
naming sources when determining a system’s name.
Default order of
naming sources when determining a system’s name

The DiscoveryAddrPref parameter
in the discovery.conf file influences in the following way how the Name
Resolution probe automatically names a system:
Determines whether the preferred
loopback IP address, public IP address, private IP address, or SNMP agent IP
address is IPv6 or IPv4.
By default, DiscoveryAddrPref is
set to IPV6FIRST_IPV4NEXT. Also, in IPv6 terminology, a “public IP address” is
referred to as a “global unicast IP address.”