Hi, Did you enabled node-alias on the switch? It's not enabled by default, you have to do it. Anticipating the question around default settings in EXOS, I'd encourage you to try ztp+ when adding a new switch (requires 21.1 or later on the switch), and then with EMC 8.0 you have the possibility to automatically run a script when that switch is added to a Site. That script could be your own default settings definition.