Thanks Tim.

I am checking on this here. As of now the plan for us in not to change any thing OOTB.

I am looking forward for doing some tests. I'll update as soon as I get chance to test it.

Thanks a lot again

In addition, it is really a wired issue. I did create CIs manually and after a whole scan on weekend it behaves same way.

Though CIs are there but does not show other details on BSM map.

Hi Tim,

I investigated on AIX machines with our support guys and here is what they told me.

They have "N" LPARs sitting on a box (RAC) with same serial number. Each LPR has got a primary IP and Host name. For various other requirements they have creates "M" aliases (different IP and Hostname )for an individual LPR. This kind of LPAR configuration is done for all the LPARs on that box. They are interested to get details of all LPRs in CMDB ( alias can be ignored).    

Discovery is doing its part by dropping the other IPs / aliases once it matches the serial number against those IPs.   So I think first thing I need to do is to exclude the alias IPs on each LPARs from scan and use 1 IP as Primary for scan.   Then I   need to use script to append hostname of LPR in to serial number and use that serial number.

Please advise.

Thanks

Amit

The identifier is already ignoring the extra IPs just fine, right? It's just that he can't tell the difference between LPARs because they share the same serial numbers. I think you need the identifier to get the partition ID in there as well so he can discriminate between LPARs, and the Out of the Box probes just don't handle that yet.

      - Tim.