{"id":58,"date":"2021-04-22T05:17:07","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T05:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.f-bit.net\/?p=58"},"modified":"2021-04-22T05:17:07","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T05:17:07","slug":"renaming-things-on-an-f5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.f-bit.net\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"Renaming things on an F5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s surprisingly difficult to rename nodes and pools and other objects on the F5 LTM BIG-IP platform. But not if you’re willing to use the CLI and enable a feature left disabled by default.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SSH into your F5, then launch the TMOS shell with the command tmsh<\/p>\n\n\n\n

modify \/sys db mcpd.mvenabled value true<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n

then use the “mv ltm” command – to see the available options, type in “mv ltm ?”, but it’s all pretty straightforward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After you’re done, it’s recommended to disable the feature again<\/p>\n\n\n\n

modify \/sys db mcpd.mvenabled value false<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s surprisingly difficult to rename nodes and pools and other objects on the F5 LTM BIG-IP platform. But not if you’re willing to use the CLI and enable a feature left disabled by default. SSH into your F5, then launch the TMOS shell with the command tmsh modify \/sys db mcpd.mvenabled value true then use […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f-bit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f-bit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f-bit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f-bit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f-bit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.f-bit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59,"href":"https:\/\/www.f-bit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f-bit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f-bit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f-bit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}