Can I assign a virtual chassis member variable to an interface?

[CupcakeMunster]

I know all the interfaces appear on the master device in a virtual chassis. Can I define an interface name like xe-{member}/0/0 so that when I'm looking at my interfaces on the master device I can see xe-0/0/0 for itself and xe-1/0/0 for it's partner device?

[mtinberg]

IIUC there is a misunderstanding here, if you have a Device Type with Interface xe-0/0/0 defined on it, then create an instance of this as switch-1 and another instance as switch-2, both will have a xe-0/0/0 interface defined, if you combine them with a Virtual Chassis into a stack then you'll see two (2) xe-0/0/0 interfaces when you look at the whole stack and you will want to navigate to the Device record for switch-2 itself and bulk rename them, using the Web UI or a Script or REST client app. I believe there was a feature request to allow the interfaces to be templated like "xe-{position}/0/0", as was done for Module Bays, so the number gets replaced with the Virtual Chassis position when the db records get created, but I wasn't sure if that feature was done yet or still in progress. — Mark Tinberg ***@***.***> Division of Information Technology-Network Services University of Wisconsin-Madison

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[CupcakeMunster]

Bulk renaming actually works nicely. Thanks for pointing that out. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing some functionality that would make my life easier down the road but bulk renaming only took me a few seconds.