Discovery renaming CIs to [OJBECT OBJECT].[OBJECT OBJECT]

[Michael Bachme1]

Why would this would be happening?

[bjmcdonald]

We haven't had that problem - but we did have where Discovery was overwriting the name of a device to the first segment of an IP address and was overwriting the data with another device completely.   It was caused by a DNS name resolution issues, I think - turned on the WMI flag in the properties section of Discovery Definition and it was fixed - think these could have been Citrix servers if I remember correctly.  

[Michael Bachme1]

How do you do that (turn on WMI flag)?

[bjmcdonald]

Within the Discovery Definition, under Functionality Definitions, in properties.   There are a number of settings that help you determine how discovery interprets the data it collects.   WMI is just one of those settings.

Hope that helps.

[Michael Bachme1 · Accepted solution]

In our attempts to switch to another MID in the interim of troubleshooting, we figured out the issue: The MID server host needed to be rebooted.

We reached this conclusion by switching to another MID on the same host and seeing the same issue. After the reboot, Discovery began functioning normally.