Change display name

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance
• Network Observability

Issue/Introduction

How do I change or update the object name field (Display Name) for a large number of Devices in a Smarts IP Domain?

Environment

All supported releases of Smart

Resolution

To change or update the name field (Display Name) for a large number of Devices in IP Domain, you can do either of the following:

• Use dmctl and put command as follows:

• Command syntax:

  dmctl -s <servername> put <class>::<instance>::<property> <value1>

• Command example:
  

  dmctl -s <servername> put Switch::<instance>::DisplayName "New_name"

 

• Change the name format
  You can change the name format as follows (see Note statement):

  • Change the name format to USESEEDNAME from the ICF-TopologyManager.

  • Use the seed file to be altered with the seedname=<New_name> for all the device and do a seedfile discovery.

NOTE: Devices need to be deleted first prior taking this action to avoid duplication.

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