Re: Is there an SNMP MIB object which provides system's fully-qualified domain name (besides sysName)

[Margaret Wasserman <margaret@thingmagic.com>]

Hi Kristine,

I don't know of a MIB object that contains this, so I hope someone else does...

One thing to keep in mind, though, is that there are many systems 
that don't actually know their own fully qualified domain name.

Margaret

At 8:03 AM -0700 2/25/05, Kristine Adamson wrote:
Hello,
   We would like to support an SNMP MIB object that provides a 
system's fully-qualified domain name.  We already support sysName, 
but we have heard that some customers set this MIB object to their 
own values for use in identifying a system.  We have also heard that 
there is discussion of allowing DBCS values for domain names so 
sysName would not be able to support those values.  I have checked 
the HOST-RESOURCES-MIB (RFC2790)  but it doesn't define the name of 
the host.  Does anyone know of a MIB module that defines a system's 
fully-qualified domain name?  Thanks!    

Kristine Adamson
IBM z/OS Communications Server: TCP/IP Development
Internet e-mail:adamson@us.ibm.com