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Change Rack Name

You may want to use your own rack naming schema, to be based on their physical locations, for example. In these cases you can change the default rack names. You can change the name of a single rack or of multiple racks simultaneously.

Change the Rack Name of a Single Rack

  1. From the blueprint, navigate to Staged > Physical > Racks and click the name of the applicable rack (not the check box).
    Network management interface showing Staged environment with details of physical racks evpn_esi_001 and evpn_single_001. Uncommitted changes layer filter is active.
    The Selection panel opens (on the right).
    Note:

    You can also get to the Selection panel from the Topology view (Staged > Physical > Topology) by selecting the rack from the Selected Rack drop-down list.

  2. From the Rack Properties tab in the Selection panel, click the Edit button for Name, change the name accordingly, then click the Save button.
    Network management interface showing the Racks tab with two listed racks: evpn_esi_001 and evpn_single_001. Rack Properties section displays an editable field for the selected rack name. Layer filter set to Uncommitted Changes with a yellow indicator. Icons for selection, building, and editing are visible.
When you're ready to activate your changes, go to the Uncommitted tab to review and commit (or discard) your changes.

Change Rack Names of Multiple Racks

New feature in Apstra version 5.0.0.

  1. From the blueprint, navigate to Staged > Physical > Nodes and click the Edit Node Names button, above the table.
    User interface of network management software with Staged tab active and red notification badge. Physical section selected, displaying Nodes tab. Uncommitted Changes layer highlighted with yellow indicator.
    The Batch rename nodes dialog opens.
  2. Change rack names, as applicable. (Notice that you can change other various hostnames and names from this dialog as well.)
    User interface for batch renaming nodes in a network tool, showing fields for editing spine and rack hostnames and names, with options to copy hostnames to names and submit changes.
  3. Click Submit to stage the changes and return to the Nodes table.
When you're ready to activate your changes, go to the Uncommitted tab to review and commit (or discard) your changes.