How to Change the Hostname of Citrix ADC SDX Appliance

How to Change the Hostname of Citrix ADC SDX Appliance

How to Change the Hostname of Citrix ADC SDX Appliance

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Description

This article describes how to change the hostname of Citrix ADC SDX appliance.

Requirements

This includes specific knowledge and/or hardware and software requirements:

XenServer
ADC SDX
Command Line Interface
Universally Unique Identifier (UUID)

Background

Using the hostname command in the command line interface is not enough to change the hostname display in the ADC SDX appliance.

Instructions

To change the Hostname of a ADC SDX appliance, complete the following steps:

Log on to the XenServer using the root credentials:
Run the xe host-list command to get the UUID of the host machine.
Run the following command:

xe host-set-hostname-live host-uuid=<from xe host-list command> host-name=<new host name>
Run the following command to change the label:
xe host-param-set name-label=<new host name> uuid=<UUID of XenServer Host>
Restart the appliance, the next time you log on the modified hostname appears:

This procedure is used to identify the SDX appliance, when you have more than one in the environment.

Note: This procedure changes the SDX appliance hostname, not the hostname of the Service virtual machine (SVM).

Issue/Introduction

This article describes how to change the hostname of a NetScaler SDX appliance.(XenServer)

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