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Linux PC appearing twice in SEC

VladGuan

Hi All,

We have a Linux (Fedora) PC with Sophos installed. It is part of a Windows AD domain (via NIS) and is placed in an appropriate AD group along with other Linux (CentOS) Servers. Now, the question is why are the following happening:

1. fedora-pc appears in correct group in SEC but its icon is greyed out (unmanaged).

2. fedora-pc.my.domain appears in unassigned group and is managed and up to date.

The instance in the unmanaged group reappears if I restart the sav services on fedora-pc after deleting it and the instance in the AD group reappears if I resync with AD.

The SEC I am running is 5.1.

Cheers,

Vlad

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    The machine itself and AD disagree about what the machine is called.

    AD thinks it is called  fedora-pc

    The machine thinks it is called fedora-pc.my.domain

    SAV reports the name that the machine thinks it is. AD reports the name it thinks the machine is.

    SEC thinks there are two unrelated machines: fedora-pc and fedora-pc.my.domain

    The solution is either to make AD think the machine is called fedora-pc.my.domain, or, more likely, make the machine think it is called fedora-pc

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    Hi Douglas,

    Thanks for the tip. Yep. I updated /etc/hostname to remove the domain bit, deleted fedora-pc.ern.ebor.com from the unassigned group in SEC. A minute or so later, fedora-pc re-appears in the unassigned group without the domain bit. However, it is now greyed-out/unmanaged whereas before, fedora-pc.ern.ebor.com was managed. It still appears in the AD group and greyed out.

    EDIT:

    Forget the above. After restarting the SAV services on fedora-pc, it disappeared from the unassigned group and now appears in the AD group as managed.

    Thanks,

    Vlad

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