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Change the Application Setting for Interface Names

You can use a setting on the Application Settings page to change the naming convention for interfaces. The default setting adds the device name in front of the interface name. This setting affects the way interface names appear in some NFA console report views, such as the Enterprise Overview views, Interface pages, and Custom Report Interface Summaries.

The interface names that result can include unwanted duplications. If a device and an interface are both named Device1, for example, by default the interface name is shown as Device1::Device1. The following example illustrates this repetition.

To eliminate the duplication, edit the Show Device Name setting on the Application Settings page.

Follow these steps:

1. Display the Application Settings page:
   1. Select Administration from the NFA console menu.

      The Administration page opens.

   2. Select System: Application Settings from the Administration page menu.

      The Application Settings page opens.

2. Set the Show Device Name value to False.
3. Click Save.

   With the Show Device Name value set to False, device names in reports and views are not prepended to interface names.