Key questions about this property
The answers below summarize the purpose, scope, default effect, and review scenarios for this property.
| What does it do? |
This property allows selection between lower case, upper case, or no change for host names discovered, influencing how they are recorded in the system. |
| What area does it affect? |
Discovery configuration |
| What does the default mean? |
The default value is "Lower case", which is the baseline setting used unless it is changed. |
| When should you review it? |
Review this property when configuring discovery settings or troubleshooting host name issues. |
Out of the box property record
Raw metadata from the property record.
| Property name |
glide.discovery.hostname.case |
| Sys ID |
45d5824c0a0a0b3a005491b499a62ebe |
| Type |
choice list |
| Application |
Global |
| Default value |
Lower case |
| Description |
<b>Host name case:</b> If "Lower case" is selected, always translate the host name into lower case; if "Upper case" is selected, always translate the host name to upper case; if "No change" is selected, leave the host name intact. This primarily affects host names discovered with NETBIOS, though some non-standard DNS systems may also return some or all of the name in upper case. |
| Updated |
2011-11-01 12:39:30 |
Sources
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... source being trusted. Note that this may result in hand-entered values being overwritten. This property is only applicable for Probe-based Discovery. • Type: true | false • Default value: true glide.discovery.hostname.case Host name case. If Lower case is selected, always translate the host name into lower case. If Upper case is selected, always translate the host name to upper case. If ...
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... When name and domain are processed, if there is no FQDN, a value is generated if possible. A resulting name value is also modified using the following discovery flags: 1. glide.discovery.hostname.case – default: No change. Can be set to ‘Lower case’, ‘Upper case’, ‘No change’ 2. glide.discovery.hostname.include_domain – default: false. If ‘true’ the domain is added to the final name value ...
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