We've tried using Airwave to change the name of an AP, which appears to work, but not completely.
The AP will show the new name in the VC, and in Airwave, but all syslog entries revert from the old name to the MAC address.
Changing the name in the VC changes it in the syslog messaging as well as the rest of the suite.
It looks like this isn't particularly mature just yet.
I too am looking forward to full management from Airwave for my iAP swarms.