Configuring device labels

If the SysName of a device contains multibyte data, follow these steps to use the SysName as the display label for devices in the topology maps.

About this task

If the SysName of a device does not contain multibyte data, you can set the SysName as the display label by selecting the Enable SysName Naming setting in the Advanced tab of the Discovery Configuration GUI.

If the SysName of a device contains multibyte data, you must not select the Enable SysName Naming setting in the Discovery Configuration GUI, because this results in the EntityName for the device containing encoded multibyte data. Instead, complete the following steps to use SysName as the display label for devices.

Procedure

  1. Back up and edit the disco.config configuration file for the appropriate domain.
  2. Set the m_DisplayMode property:
    1. Set m_DisplayMode to 0 (the default) to use the EntityName as the display name.
    2. Set m_DisplayMode to 1 to use the SysName as the display name.
      The EntityName is not changed, but devices are displayed using the SysName.
  3. Save and close the file.

Results

The settings are applied on the next discovery.