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Nimbostratus

May 19, 2022

r5600 hostname

I have a pair of r5600 appliance running F5OS. I went through the initial configuration and set the hostname to let say ABCD and the admin CLI prompt was set correctly to ABCD. But when I logged in...

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iaine

Nacreous

Ah sorry, didn't pickup on that. Have you tried this...?

https://techdocs.f5.com/en-us/velos-1-3-0/velos-systems-administration-configuration/title-system-settings/general-system-config-overview/configure-hostname-cli.html

JohnL

Nimbostratus

May 27, 2022

Thanks for the reply iaine.

Sorry, I know this is confusing. But that's not it. The configs in the link can also be changed within the GUI.

I am talking about this one.

CentOS Linux 7 (Core)
Kernel 3.10.0-1160.25.1.F5.1.el7_8.x86_64 on an x86_64
appliance-1 login: root
Password:
Last login: Fri May 27 10:47:47 from localhost
[root@appliance-1 ~]# hostname
appliance-1.chassis.local