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Name configuration
The Host Connectivity Manager allows you to configure names as a method of providing familiar,
simple names to world wide names for adapters, ports, virtual ports, and remote ports in the SAN.
(A logical port can be a base port or a virtual port.) Only unique names are allowed.
You can access the Configure Names dialog box by selecting an HBA, an HBA port, a Virtual Port, a
CNA or a CEE port from the device tree.
You can perform the following name tasks using either the Configure Names dialog or the Define
Names dialog:
•Associate a name that represents an adapter, port, virtual port, or remote port. Note the
following things about names:
•Among all adapters, two cannot have duplicate names.
•Among all the ports, two cannot have duplicate names.
•A port and adapter can have the same name.
•You cannot associate a name for a storage device.
•Name changes on remote ports and virtual ports are sent to the *.properties file local to
the HCM application but are not sent to the agent.
•Add a detached WWN and an associated name with Type and operational status as Unknown.
•Remove or disassociate a name from a WWN.
NOTE
You can launch the Define Names dialog by right-clicking an adapter, port, remote port, or V_Port.

Name validation

Note the following when you define a name:
•The name cannot begin with a number.
•The name cannot begin with an underscore ( _ ) or hyphen ( - ), however an underscore or
hyphen character is allowed within the name; for example, name1_name-2.
•No special characters are allowed, except for an underscore or hyphen.
•The maximum length of the name is 15 characters.
•The maximum length of the description is 80 characters.