Issues with Cisco Network assistant

[ashique84]

Hello....

I recently joined a company as Network Admin. Our senior network admin asked to use the cisco network assistant. O have installed it on my machine and when i try to connect to an existing community which the senior agent has created, I am getting an error

  "Unable  to determine the IP address of the specified device. A hostname should  be specified only if it has a DNS entry. If not, the IP address of the  device has to be specified". What do i need to do??

[Marvin Rhoads · Accepted solution]

CNA communities are specific to the local PC installation. You need to define and create the community on your machine to connect to it.

Also, as noted in the CNA help file:

       To connect Network Assistant, use the Connect window to choose

• A community, by name
• A cluster, by the IP address or the hostname of its command          device
• A standalone device, by its IP address or hostname

Note: A hostname can be used only if a DNS server has been set up        to resolve it. If the hostname is the same as a community name, Network        Assistant connects to the community.