Dell Metered PDU LED - Manual (Page 90)

USER’S GUIDE
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• Select naming to define the host name and domain name of the Rack PDU:
– Host Name : After you configure a host name here and a domain name in the
Domain Name field, users can enter a host name in any field in the Rack PDU
interface (except e-mail addresses) that accepts a domain name.
– Domain Name : You need to configure the domain name here only. In all other
fields in the Rack PDU interface (except e-mail addresses) that accept domain
names, the Rack PDU adds this domain name when only a host name is entered.
• To override all instances of the expansion of a specified host name by the
addition of the domain name, set the domain name field to its default,
somedomain.com , or to 0.0.0.0.
• To override the expansion of a specific host name entry (for example, when
defining a trap receiver), include a trailing period. The Rack PDU recognizes a
host name with a trailing period (such as mySnmpServer.) as if it were a fully-
qualified domain name and does not append the domain name.
• Select test to send a DNS query that tests the setup of your DNS servers:
– As Query Type , select the method to use for the DNS query:
• by Host : the URL name of the server
• by FQDN : the fully-qualified domain name
• by IP : the IP address of the server
• by MX : the Mail Exchange used by the server
– As Query Question , identify the value to be used for the selected query type:
– View the result of the test DNS request in the Last Query Response field.
Query Type Selected Query Question to Use
by Host The URL
by FQDN The fully qualified domain name, my_server.my_domain.
by IP The IP address
by MX The Mail Exchange address