Viewing devices by hostnames in DCR

Dear Friends,
Just one quick question:
Is there a possibility to see the display name of the devices as the hostnames?
I am right now seeing only IP addresses.
The settings i chose are "Preferred DCR Display Name" being "Hostname" and the "Preferred Management IP" being "None".
I dont have a DNS to do the name to ip resolution for the devices.
But i still thinking if there is a possibility to see the hostnames instead of IP addresses in the DCR as the hostnames appear more readable.
Please advise.
Thanks a lot
Gautam

Dear Jason,
I have two loopback addresses per device viz. private and public loopback.
So i believe that discovery by sysname should be better.
I have discovered these devices using ping sweep module with the ip range being on their private loopbacks.
So i hope they would have been added to the DCR with their private loopbacks only. I dont have a chance to check it now but tomorrow morning i will check it again.
I will add to the local dns file and see how it goes. But should i do a rediscovery again or will the dcr get updated automatically?
Just one more question out of curiosity, if i could go beyond the scope of my original question.
When i discovered with ping sweep, i was prompted with the seed devices and the include/exclude filters.
When i gave the seed device and the include address filters, i noticed (wireshark capture) that the ping sweep was only happening on the seed device and not on the include address filters.
When i removed the original seed device ip address and just put in the ip addresses (which i put earlier in the include filter), then i was able to see that it was doing a ping sweep and also a snmpget to the device.
I am not sure why you need a seed device for ping sweep module? It seems to make sense for cdp module but i dont see why you need seed device for ping sweep module.
Thanks a lot
Gautam

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