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Lewis_Beard
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22 days ago

Rename a collector?

I swore that in the old UIv3 you could rename a collector hostname. I dont mean the resource representation of the collector, when it monitors itself, I mean the actual name it has in the collector context.

When I try to manage the collector on the collectors page, there is no option to change it. But we have a situation where we have to. Does this mean we need to rebuild and redeploy the collector to change it?

The 2 collectors have similar collector names (collector hostnames), and while their respective resource names (for self-monitoring) have different displaynames etc, on the machines themselves, they have the same system.sysname. So this is causing some weird bug where alerts on either collector cause the alert to show on both. Kind of amusing.

COLLECTOR "DEVICE NAME" /// RESOURCE DISPLAYNAME /// SYSTEM.SYSNAME
-------------------------------------------------------------------
CORP\FF-FF01 /// FF-FF01.CompanyA.Com /// FF-FF01
WAN\FF-FF01 /// FF-FF01.CompanyB.Com /// FF-FF01

Because the sysnames are also the same (they sit in completely different networks) I think its confusing LogicMonitor, so I suspect the team that deploys there is going to have to honestly redo one of the collectors completely.

But when fishing around in the UIv4 collectors page, I saw no way to change the "CORP\FF-FF01" or "WAN\FF-FF01" part. I think the sysname is going to force a complete redeploy on one, but its just weird I cant change the name.

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  • I'm pretty sure you could only change the description in the old UI also. Here is a wayback machine screenshot of the old setup (look behind the popup menu):

    https://web.archive.org/web/20210420090736/https://www.logicmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Collector-Config.png