Custom Naming of Devices in the WAX610

ortizalfredt wrote:

I'm also on page 239 of the 326 page user manual and nothing so far discusses naming.

In the "Connected Clients" list under Monitoring, Host Names are listed but i see no way to edit anything shown.

Correct: There is none - at least none on that end of the food chain. And none in Insight App nor in Insight Web portal.

The only option you have on certain devices is to provide a device name or host name, most (but not all) might forward that name accordingly. 

Typical IoT don't allow device naming however. 

A much smarter start would be on the router end, or more specifically on the DHCP side if things.

Some routers allow defining host names. Good DHCP servers are supplying the host name in the answer to the DHCP request in the device name field, which is provided to the DHCP client in the so called Option 12, aka, SYSNAME field. Keep in mind the field is limited to 30 ASCII characters, no spaces, ... so it represents a correct hostname.

On some devices, like the in any aspects capable HP printers, you might have to change the priority from Standard to DHCP inthe HP embedded Web server (EWS), so this field is accepted (instead of the standard NPIxxyyzz name, derived from the Network Printer Interface and the MAC address) is used.

Needless to say, this requires operating all the devices on the network in DHCP client mode.

As I said before: If there is no meaningful name specified, or an empty null byte string is provided, the code on these wireless APs does create one, based on the MAC address (along with the by far not perfect detection of the device manufacturer and the OS).

Conclude, there are much better places to define a hostname, than manually force one in place on an access point.