Replacing IP addresses with host names

Michael Hagerth

• October 05, 2022 21:33

Is there any way to associate or replace an ip adress with a host name in Alert Logic Portal? We have so many devices that it is difficult to remember which devices are which by just looking at the IPs. We aren't using agent based scans... just the internal, external, and the Default All Networks Discovery Scan.

Thanks.

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  Brian Gabel

  • November 21, 2022 16:34

  HI, I'm not a techie but I had the same issue and this is how my techies resolved it:

  Get the Alert Logic tool to pick up data from your DNS server. I don't know the detail of how this is done but in a nutshell that's what required. Once you've done that you may still find that some devices are still only identified by their IP address. If this is the case then you need to set up the pointer records on these devices. Here's a link to how this is done.

  POINTER (PTR) Record : DNS Made Easy

  Hope this helps.

   

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