Topics: Red Hat / Linux, System Admin

Setting the hostname in RHEL 7

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and similar Linux distrobutions have a new command to set the hostname of the system easily. The command is hostnamectl. For example, to set the hostname of a RHEL 7 system to "flores", run: 

# hostnamectl set-hostname flores
The hostnamectl command provides some other interesting features.

For example, it can be used to set the deployment type of the system, for example "development" or "production" or anything else you like to give it (as long as it's a single word. You can do so, for example by setting it to "production", by running: 
# hostnamectl set-deployment production
Another option is to set the location of the system (and here you can use multiple words): 
# hostnamectl set-location "third floor rack A12 U24"
To retrieve all this information, use hostnamectl as well to query the status: 
root@(enemigo) selinux # hostnamectl status
   Static hostname: flores
         Icon name: computer-laptop
           Chassis: laptop
        Deployment: production
          Location: third floor rack A12 U24
        Machine ID: 4d8158f54d5166ff374bb372599351c4
           Boot ID: ae8e7dccf14a492984fb5462c4da2aa2
  Operating System: CentOS Linux 7 (Core)
       CPE OS Name: cpe:/o:centos:centos:7
            Kernel: Linux 3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.x86_64
      Architecture: x86-64




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