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Learn how to install, configure, and operate the Vyatta Network Operating System (Vyatta NOS) and Orchestrator, which help drive our virtual networking and physical platforms portfolio.

Aliases

You can define one or more aliases for the system by mapping the IP address of the system to more than one host name.

The following table shows how to create the finance1 alias for the system.

To create an alias for the system, perform the following steps in configuration mode.

Table 1. Creating an alias for the system
Step Command
Define an alias.
vyatta@R1# set system static-host-mapping host-name 
R1 alias finance1
Commit the change.
vyatta@R1# commit
Show the configuration.
vyatta@R1# show system static-host-mapping
 host-name R1 {
   alias finance1
   inet 10.0.0.65
 }