How Reports from User Activity Video Recorder resolve host names

Question: When I check reports, the server name is shown differently as when I try to resolve its' name using the DNS server. How does User Activity Video Recorder resolve host names?

Answer: First of all, the UAVR Agent looks locally in the hosts file of the server (located in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc folder). You can also check the Name resolution by utilizing this command in PowerShell on the monitored server:

[System.Net.Dns]::GetHostEntry("127.0.0.1").HostName

The resulting name will match the name of the server in the UAVR report. If there is no record for 127.0.0.1-localhost on the server, the DNS server will be polled for the name.