Customizing chassis and host names

Extreme recommends that you customize the chassis name for each device. Some system logs identify the device by its chassis name; if you assign a meaningful chassis name, logs are more useful. You can also configure the host name.

To customize the chassis name and host name, perform the following steps:

In privileged EXEC mode, enter global configuration mode.
```
device# configure terminal
```
Configure the chassis name.
```
device(config)# switch-attributes chassis-name SLX-market1
```
A chassis name can be from 1 through 30 characters long, must begin with a letter, and can contain letters, numbers, and underscore characters.
The default chassis name is SLX9540-# where # is the number of slots in the chassis.
Configure the host name.
```
device(config)# switch-attributes host-name SLX-mrkt
SLX-mrkt(config)#
```
This example changes the host name to SLX-mrkt and it is displayed in the prompt.

A host name can be from 1 through 30 characters long. It must begin with a letter, and can contain letters, numbers, and underscore characters. The default host name is SLX.
Exit global configuration mode.
```
SLX-mrkt(config)# exit
```

Verify the configuration.

SLX-mrkt# show running-config switch-attributes
switch-attributes chassis-name SLX-market1
switch-attributes host-name SLX-mrkt
!

Example

The following configuration is an example of the previous steps.

device# configure terminal
device(config)# switch-attributes chassis-name SLX-market1
device(config)# switch-attributes host-name SLX-mrkt
SLX-mrkt(config)#