Managing hosts file

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To manage hosts file with the local management interface, use the Hosts File management page.

About this task

Note: The system hostname is automatically added to the appliance hosts file. The appliance will associate an available IPv4 management address with the system hostname. Alternatively, a particular IPv4 management address can be designated as the Primary Address to associate with the system hostname in the hosts file. See Configuring interfaces for instructions to set a Primary Address.

This page is not available in the LMI when the appliance runs in a container environment.

Procedure

  1. From the top menu, select System > Network Settings > Hosts File.
    All current host records with their IP address and host names are displayed.
  2. You can then work with host records and host names.
    • Add a host record
      1. Select the root level Host Records entry or do not select any entries.
      2. Click New.
      3. On the Create Host record page, provide IP address and host name of the host record to add.
      4. Click Save.
    • Add a host name to a host record
      1. Select the host record entry to add the host name to.
      2. Click New.
      3. On the Add Hostname to Host Record page, enter the host name to add.
      4. Click Save.
    • Remove a host record
      1. Select the host record entry to delete.
      2. Click Delete.
      3. On the confirmation page, click Yes to confirm the deletion.
    • Remove a host name from a host record
      1. Select host name entry to delete.
      2. Click Delete.
      3. On the confirmation page, click Yes to confirm the deletion.
        Note: If the removed host name is the only associated host name for the IP address, then the entire host record (the IP address and host name) is removed.