5.1. Exotic Cases

I need to change the hostname or the port of an FST

If you need to rename an FST host or change the port number, you can use the eos-config-inspect tool.

  1. Shutdown your MGM
  2. Modify the configuration of each concerned filesystem by filesytem id

To relocate filesystem 1 to foo.bar:1095 having QDB on localhost:7777 you do:

eos-config-inspect relocate-filesystem --fsid 1 --new-fst-host foo.bar --new-fst-port 1095 --members localhost:7777

3. Verify/Rewrite your vid rules, in case the hostname was used there 3. Restart your MGM 4. Ready