# adding vcenter to tower caused hosts displayed with ids

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/adding-vcenter-to-tower-caused-hosts-displayed-with-ids/25852>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** vmware, awx\
**Created:** [October 28, 2017, 8:54am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/adding-vcenter-to-tower-caused-hosts-displayed-with-ids/25852 "2017-10-28T08:54:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Oguz\_Yarimtepe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/d07c76/32.png) [@Oguz\_Yarimtepe](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Oguz_Yarimtepe)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2017, 8:54am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/adding-vcenter-to-tower-caused-hosts-displayed-with-ids/25852/1 "2017-10-28T08:54:19Z")

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I added VMWare VCenter credential typt to AWX interface and also added source of my VCenter. I can see the vms on my VCenter but all are imported with their name\_id format which i dont want. How can i tell AWX (Tower) to import VCenter vmc with just thier name or display them as their names?