TokyoIoT 2 Posted November 23, 2015 Report Share Posted November 23, 2015 (edited) I would like Domotz to be the magnifying glass to my network. Any information it could possibly observe, retrieve should be made available. If the objective is to have a clean interface, additional information can be hidden in advanced sections. Device names can come from various sources (Netbios, DNS, WINS, Bonjour) and they may be different as well. I would like to see Domotz to display all names including the source of the name. It looks like Domotz is not getting the Netbios data as Domotz shows the mac address for a device which only provides the Netbios name. Domotz does show the Bonjour name. Edited November 23, 2015 by TokyoIoT Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Silvio 29 Posted November 23, 2015 Report Share Posted November 23, 2015 Yes at the moment we are only processing: Hostname, Bonjour Name, SNMP Name. Any time they are retrieved, they are displayed separately in the Info section of a device. See attached pictures. Also, note that there is concept of Display Name", that you can populate as you like. By default it is prefilled with one of the above names (or the MAC address if none is found), but you can put there any name you want for a better identification. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TokyoIoT 2 Posted November 23, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2015 Looks good. I assume that host name refers to the name obtained by nslookup. I really hope you can add Netbios. This is used by SMB I believe. Most iOS LAN scan apps resolve Netbios names. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Giancarlo 48 Posted November 24, 2015 Report Share Posted November 24, 2015 That's true: the hostname is the one returned by DNS service (nslookup). We have other name services in our backlog (including NetBios, but also UpNp - in part for services as well). Not sure yet when we will include these, though. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TokyoIoT 2 Posted November 24, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 24, 2015 Great. When you do NerBios, can you include the domain as well, for example WORKGROUP/MYPC. UPnP is on my wishlist as well. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Giancarlo 48 Posted November 24, 2015 Report Share Posted November 24, 2015 2 hours ago, TokyoIoT said: When you do NerBios, can you include the domain as well, for example WORKGROUP/MYPC. Sure. We wil consider this as well. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TokyoIoT 2 Posted November 27, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 27, 2015 It seems that hostnames are removed when the DNS name can no longer be resolved. Instead, would it be possible to show the host name in red indicating that IP address no longer can be resolved? Related to that, does Domotz check whether the DNS servers are alive? Currently, Domotz uses the DNS servers defined by the platform. It could be very well possible that a device has a staticly defined DNS server which means that the results could be very different from what Domotz sees. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Giancarlo 48 Posted December 1, 2015 Report Share Posted December 1, 2015 On 11/27/2015, 5:13:32, TokyoIoT said: It seems that hostnames are removed when the DNS name can no longer be resolved. Instead, would it be possible to show the host name in red indicating that IP address no longer can be resolved? You are right: this is the current behavior. We will put this request in our backlog, and check when it will be implemented. On 11/27/2015, 5:13:32, TokyoIoT said: Related to that, does Domotz check whether the DNS servers are alive? At the moment, it doesn't perform this kind of check. On 11/27/2015, 5:13:32, TokyoIoT said: Currently, Domotz uses the DNS servers defined by the platform. It could be very well possible that a device has a staticly defined DNS server which means that the results could be very different from what Domotz sees. Actually it's quite difficult to get the DNS name as resolved by each Device: you can't actually access on every single device, and see which DNS server it uses, since devices do not host any agent. We can't avoid this at the moment. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TokyoIoT 2 Posted December 1, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 1, 2015 1 hour ago, Giancarlo said: Actually it's quite difficult to get the DNS name as resolved by each Device: you can't actually access on every single device, and see which DNS server it uses, since devices do not host any agent. We can't avoid this at the moment. Is it possible to add a feature to allow the configuration of the DNS server used by Domotz? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Giancarlo 48 Posted December 1, 2015 Report Share Posted December 1, 2015 1 hour ago, TokyoIoT said: Is it possible to add a feature to allow the configuration of the DNS server used by Domotz? This is something we can consider. I'll put on the list, but no promise on when we can realize it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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