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Drive rename not showing

I am trying to create an alert and one of the conditions is the drive labels.

On a number of servers I've renamed the drives from "Data" to "SQL Data" on the servers themselves using the usual rename method, but they are still showing up in Orion with the old name/label.

I've attempted rediscovery of the node and the volumes, left it overnight, etc. but it still shows as the old name and hence my alerts and reports aren't picking the volumes up.

Grateful for any advice.

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Seashore

I haven't tried it with volumes but I guess it's the same as with node names.

Node names and volume names are called "Caption" in the database. Caption is set upon adding the node or volume. It does not change even if the nodes name change.

You can go in an edit the volume and change the name there to what you want. Same goes with nodes.

Below you can see I have changed the volume name in Orion (added 'xx' to the end) but the original name is stated in the "Volume Details"

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Seashore

I haven't tried it with volumes but I guess it's the same as with node names.

Node names and volume names are called "Caption" in the database. Caption is set upon adding the node or volume. It does not change even if the nodes name change.

You can go in an edit the volume and change the name there to what you want. Same goes with nodes.

Below you can see I have changed the volume name in Orion (added 'xx' to the end) but the original name is stated in the "Volume Details"

msknight

Thanks for the explanation. It is a bit confusing to be honest.

It does seem that Orion has picked up the change on the server, because the volume label is now "SQL Database" but it hasn't changed the label in the volume details, as you explained. I'm not sure why Orion doesn't do this. It just makes the job a little harder :-D

Seashore

It's a feature, not a bug :-D

It can be convenient to be able to set whatever name you want in Orion and it still works and displays the "real world name"