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Big_Daddy_61011
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Oct 04, 2007

Display object names in bigip configuration utility

I have 4ea. Big IP units running 4.5.14 code.     I want to see the names of our systems rather than the ip addresses.     On one of the 4 units, I added an entry at the end of /etc/hosts ...
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Big_Daddy_61011
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Oct 06, 2007
Turns out I was missing something basic. Under System Admin -> Web UI -> checkbox "use hostnames when possible".

 

 

Problem solved ... I didn't figure it out, F5 support did.