Changing the Display Name Priority

You can change the type of display name for a correlated aggregate object, when that object is correlated by network address. When the object is correlated by free-form correlater, the display name is taken from the Correlater field. In that case, the type of display name cannot by changed.

The fields shown in Figure 1 are used to determine the correlated aggregate object display name. To determine which correlated aggregate object field is used to label an object, the correlate function uses a prioritized list of those fields in the FLCSDM8 file. The correlate function queries each field of the aggregate object in the order listed until a non-null value is found; this value is used to label the object. Table 1 lists the default priority used and the agents for which the priorities are used.

Table 1. Correlated Aggregate Object Default Display Name Priority
Priority Name Type Discovered By
5 SNA node name SNATM
6 LAN MAC address SNATM

You can determine which label is displayed by customizing the order in which the fields are listed.

For example, using the default priority shown in Figure 1, a workstation that contains a MultiSystem Manager IBM® Tivoli® Network Manager agent is not named using the computer name because the Internet does not define a computer name for managed resources. In this case, the workstation object is labeled using its internet protocol host name.
Figure 1. Default Display Name Priority
(
 (FIELDID) '1.3.18.0.0.6464'.
            '1.3.18.0.0.3315.2.7.202'       -- computerName
 (FIELDID) '1.3.18.0.0.6464'.
            'ipHostName'                    -- ipHostName
 (FIELDID) '1.3.18.0.0.6464'.
            'iPAddress'                     -- iPAddress
 (FIELDID) '1.3.18.0.0.6464'.
            '1.3.18.0.0.2032'               -- snaNodeName
 (FIELDID) '1.3.18.0.0.6464'.
            '1.3.18.0.0.5263'               -- aIndMACAddress
Now, assume that you have customized the FLCSDM8 file to put TCP/IP address (priority 3) before IP host name (priority 2) as shown in Figure 2. In this case, the TCP/IP address is used to label the workstation object because the MultiSystem Manager IBM Tivoli Network Manager agent provides both an IP host name and an IP address, and the IP address name is listed first.
Figure 2. Customized Display Name Priority
(
 (FIELDID) '1.3.18.0.0.6464'.
            '1.3.18.0.0.3315.2.7.202'      --computerName
 (FIELDID) '1.3.18.0.0.6464'.
            'iPAddress'                    -- iPAddress
 (FIELDID) '1.3.18.0.0.6464'.
            'ipHostName'                   -- ipHostName
  (FIELDID) '1.3.18.0.0.6464'.
            '1.3.18.0.0.2032'              -- snaNodeName
 (FIELDID) '1.3.18.0.0.6464'.
            '1.3.18.0.0.5263'              -- aIndMACAddress
 );