Key questions about this property
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| What does it do? |
This property allows the system to trust device names discovered through WMI, overriding reverse DNS names when set to true. |
| What area does it affect? |
Discovery and device identification |
| What does the default mean? |
The default value is "true", which means this behavior is enabled by default. |
| When should you review it? |
Review this property when configuring device discovery settings or troubleshooting device name discrepancies. |
Out of the box property record
Raw metadata from the property record.
| Property name |
glide.discovery.hostname.wmi_trusted |
| Sys ID |
55d3c1bf0a0a0b3a00090167bb0a1e02 |
| Type |
boolean |
| Application |
Global |
| Default value |
true |
| Description |
<b>WMI is trusted host name source:</b> If "yes", trust the device name discovered via WMI. If checked, any device name found via WMI will be used <i>instead of</i> the name found by a reverse DNS lookup. |
| Updated |
2021-03-04 12:39:07 |
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... do not use the DNS name as the host name. • Type: true | false • Default value: false (For new Discovery customers starting in Australia, default value is true.) glide.discovery.hostname.wmi_trusted WMI is trusted host name source: If set to true, trust the device name discovered via WMI. If checked, any device name found via WMI is used instead of the ...
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