Modifying managed appliance information using the CLI

Use the commands in this section to modify information about managed appliances.

Caution

Do not change an appliance's hostname if the appliance initiated the connection to the Central Management System appliance.

Note

This section does not include all appliance modification commands. For a full list of commands, see the cmc appliance <applianceName> commands in the CLI Command Reference.

To modify appliance information:

Go to CLI configuration mode:

hostname > enable
hostname # configure terminal

To change the appliance IP address:

hostname (config) # cmc appliance <applianceName> address <ipAddress> | <hostname>

To rename the appliance:

hostname (config) # cmc appliance <applianceName> rename <newName>

To add or modify a comment about the appliance:
```
hostname (config) # cmc appliance <applianceName> comment "<comment>"
```
where commentText must be enclosed in double quotation marks.

To change the remote user:

hostname (config) # cmc appliance <applianceName> auth password username <username>

To change the password:

hostname (config) # cmc appliance <applianceName> auth password password <password>

Verify your changes:

hostname (config) # show cmc appliance <applianceName>

Save your changes:
```
hostname (config) # write memory
```

Note

This procedure shows how to change the credentials for password authentication. For information about changing ssh-dsa2 and ssh-rsa2 authentication credentials, see Configuring User Authentication Using the CLI . To configure a host key for global host-key authentication, see Importing a Global Host Key Using the CLI .

Example

This example changes the NX-04 appliance name and comment.

hostname (config) # cmc appliance NX-04 rename NX-07
hostname (config) # cmc appliance NX-07 comment "Network Security appliance"