Change the name of node

As I didn't find a newer thread (and this is the best one) I'd like to WARN here about renaming nodes (the rest is fine).

Don't do it on nodes associated with a Pool. For VIPs and Pools there will be no issue, but when you do it on nodes there might be issues (like today in my environment).

The requested node address (/Common/$OLDNODENAME$) was not found.

You don't want this errors in your LTM-log.

A word to the

mv

-command it's working, but will have the same issues as with renaming in the

bigip.conf

. When you rename nodes, wich are mapped in an pool there is the problem as seen above and when you disable ANY member in the pool, your renamed node will disappear magically from your pool.

So now you heard! Happy renaming.