# Gateway name is not persisting upon power cycle

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-name-is-not-persisting-upon-power-cycle/62967>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** docker, ignition81\
**Created:** [August 12, 2022, 6:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-name-is-not-persisting-upon-power-cycle/62967 "2022-08-12T18:39:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Matrix\_Engineering](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/matrix_engineering/32/19781_2.png) [@Matrix\_Engineering](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Matrix_Engineering)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2022, 6:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-name-is-not-persisting-upon-power-cycle/62967/1 "2022-08-12T18:39:49Z")

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As title;

 ![gateway name](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/2/b/2b383e1c8ade288413914c4203dc66bbf58034e4.png)

On 7th at lunchtime I changed my gateway name from 8.1.19 to randdserver. Later that evening I was installing a UPS bypass switch in the server rack so I brought the entire rack down. Upon bringing it up again, the gateway name had changed back to 8.1.19 by itself. So I changed it again.

Then on the 11th, one of my employee's was adding CTs' to the UPS PDU, so the rack was taken down again and upon coming back up, once again it has reverted to the old name.

### Gateway | _ignition8-1-19_

Version: **8.1.19 (b2022072711)**

License: **licensed**

Uptime: **a day**

Running this in Docker if it matters, bare metal is Debian Stretch 10.

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2022, 6:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-name-is-not-persisting-upon-power-cycle/62967/2 "2022-08-12T18:47:20Z")

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Which docker image are you using? I’d imagine it is related, since the `--name` or `-n` param you ran the image with is used…

paging @kcollins plz

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**Author:** ![Matrix\_Engineering](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/matrix_engineering/32/19781_2.png) [@Matrix\_Engineering](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Matrix_Engineering)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2022, 6:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-name-is-not-persisting-upon-power-cycle/62967/3 "2022-08-12T18:50:08Z")

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![docker8119](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/f/2/f21fd03d5877ce5e6a699cdc56ee803d90b34eaf.png)

```auto
docker run -d --name ignition8-1-19 -h ignition8-1-19 \
  -v ignition8-1-19:/usr/local/bin/ignition/data \
  -p 8119:8088 \
  -e TZ=Europe/Belfast \
  -e GATEWAY_ADMIN_PASSWORD=password \
  -e IGNITION_EDITION=standard \
  -e ACCEPT_IGNITION_EULA=Y \
  inductiveautomation/ignition:8.1.19 \
  -n ignition8-1-19

```

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**Author:** ![kcollins](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kcollins/32/19646_2.png) [@kcollins](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/kcollins)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2022, 6:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-name-is-not-persisting-upon-power-cycle/62967/4 "2022-08-12T18:50:42Z")

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If you want the gateway system name to “float”, don’t specify it in the runtime args like you are there with the `-n` flag.

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2022, 6:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-name-is-not-persisting-upon-power-cycle/62967/5 "2022-08-12T18:50:52Z")

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> [@Matrix\_Engineering](#):
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> ` -n ignition8-1-19`

You're doing this to yourself 😛

This gets put into `data/init.properties` and applied on startup.

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**Author:** ![Matrix\_Engineering](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/matrix_engineering/32/19781_2.png) [@Matrix\_Engineering](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Matrix_Engineering)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2022, 6:51pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-name-is-not-persisting-upon-power-cycle/62967/6 "2022-08-12T18:51:35Z")

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Everyday is a school day 🙂

Thanks both