You can assign aliases to any monitored item where it makes sense, such as VM, volume, pool, SAN port, datastore, cluster ...
You will see a new name everywhere in the UI, Reports, Exports, Alerting afterwards.
You can even create a CSV file with aliases and import it into the tool all in once.

There is UI based form: UI ➡ Settings icon ➡ Device ➡ Alias ➡ Select devices class ➡ HW class ➡Subsystem ➡ Add item ➡ select the item from a list ➡ save

edit the alias name in the main alias table ➡ Save all

Alias - CSV Export / Import

Edit the alias table on your computer in your favorite editor using the Export and Import feature.

• Create new aliases using the "New Alias" button
  New aliases will be created with the generic name "New Alias XZ"
• Save new aliases using the "Save All" button
• Export alias table to a CSV file using the "Export CSV" button
• Edit the file in your favorite editor
• Import the updated file using "Import CSV"

CSV file format:

• UTF-8 or ASCII plain text file
• Unix (LF) or Windows (CR LF) end of file format
• delimiter: semicolon (";")
• the first line indicating field order is mandatory
• trailing semicolon is mandatory
• the "label" field can be omitted during import

CSV file examples

item_id;label;alias;
501184ad-0522-037b-6a14-d638ca77fe27;vm-3364;Test VM;
50117340-085e-10e5-5bab-12b6898159de;vm-3665;Prod VM;

Without 'label'

item_id;alias;
501184ad-0522-037b-6a14-d638ca77fe27;Test VM;
50117340-085e-10e5-5bab-12b6898159de;Prod VM;