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 Renaming webseal instances on containers

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Matt Jenkins IBM Champion posted Tue August 19, 2025 03:28 PM

Is there a way to rename the webseal web reverse proxy instance names within an IVIA configuration hosted on containers?

I have a case where we named all our instances and suffixed them with site names.  i.e.:

www.acme.org-austin

www.acme.org-atlanta

We are in the process of consolidating some things and I now have the ability to just have a single instance with the same config.  So I was trying to rattle around in my head if I could just rename the reverse proxy instance name from www.acme.org-austin to www.acme.org.

I figured it would require a config export/import, but I thought I would ask here to see if anyone had pulled it off on the newer versions.

PS:  Yes, I know this would require changes to the wrp container environment variables.

Thanks for any input!

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Nick Lloyd

Hi Matt,

It is not possible to just rename an instance.  You have to export the config, delete the instance (or leave until you know it worked), create with new name, then import the config.

Nick