Renaming a VLAN interface

[darrencarr]

Hi All I want to rename a VLAN interface (MCI-INTERNET) but cannot do it in the GUI. Is there anyway you can do this in the CLI? Cheers D

[emnoc]

config sys int delete it, and recreate it with the new name but way do you want to create it and is it worth it ;)

[darrencarr]

Hi I want to keep all of the policies going from say Internal -> MCI-INTERNET Deleting it will delete the policies and I will have to add them again, that is correct?

[emnoc]

I want to say you can' t delete it until anything bound to it is 1st removed. It' s fortinet way of checks and balances. So any fwpolicy, dhcp-scopes, protection profiles, etc.. must be removed. But give it a try, back up your config. If it' s just cosmetics, I would leave it alone. This is why I perfer using the wording vlan or vlan-number and just use the alias command options on these virtual interfaces. i.e config sys int edit vlanXXX set alias " give it a name" end

[Maik]

I want to rename a VLAN interface (MCI-INTERNET) but cannot do it in the GUI. Is there anyway you can do this in the CLI?

from the CLI try config sys interface rename MCI-INTERNET to NEWNAME end dependend on your firmware it might work.

[#6]

Hi darrencarr , You can also try this way : - Save the config (keep a backup) - Edit it - replace all occurrence of the " current name" with the " new name" - Reboot with the new config That will update all objects referring to the VLAN name. -J.

[rwpatterson]

I just did that. Pain in the (insert word here)!

Backed up the config in plain text

Broke out any references to the VLAN into a new file

In reverse order, I entered the commands to delete all reference to the VLAN

I altered the commands to recreate the VLAN

I copied/pasted the commands into the CLI, making corrections as needed Not pretty, but functional...

[emnoc]

from the CLI try config sys interface rename MCI-INTERNET to NEWNAME end dependend on your firmware it might work.  

That would be interesting to see if it works. I know that the FortiOS will not let you change static entries, but I' m not 100% sure as to what it would do with a VLAN entry which is not static or at least I think it' s not considered static. Worst case, you could use a wordpad and F5 : find or vi editor and %/s and subsitute the variables in the config file and reload it.

[g3rman]

See this blog post: http://firewallguru.blogspot.com/2009/11/cli-magic-renaming-existing-interfaces.html

[rwpatterson]

That' s way too easy!