Instance Names

[Maurice Lawler <ma...@me.com>]

Greetings,

I'm hoping someone can point me into the right direction, I have provisioned an instanced; however, I failed to create a name for it. Now in my list of instances, I see the UUID and not a 'custom' name so to speak. I'm sure this can easily be manipulated via the database, however; I am looking through docs etc, unsure where to make changes.

Any guidance would be greatly appreciate!

- M.

RE: Instance Names

["Musayev, Ilya" <im...@webmd.net>]

Maurice,

Sorry the link is a feature to name instances ACS and show in hypervisor with ACS name. This is not going to help your current problem.

I think Marcus gave you a correct solution, if all you need to change is UUID, then test is on 1 VM, make sure all functions well, and then proceed to the reset.

If you want to figure out where UUID maybe mentioned other than instances table, here is what I generally do - when I'm need to figure out what needs to change.

Backup your db

Pick 1 vm in question
do a mysql dump
split all lines for insert statement, such that each insert statement is on separate line (will help with grep)
grep -i for "improper name or UUID name" and identify affected tables (it should be 1 table I assume either instances or vm_instances, but if more you would see it come up)
in mysql workbench or similar mysql browser editor, try changing just 1 vm to see if you get the desired results, test all operations for that single vm

If worked, script the remaining portion to generate update sql commands

Document the procedure and share it with community,

Good luck
-ilya


From: Maurice Lawler [mailto:maurice.lawler@me.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 11:25 AM
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Cc: Musayev, Ilya
Subject: Re: Instance Names

Hello,

I did just find that CLOUDSTACk-778, reviewing it it seems to me that does not quite answer my question; unless I am missing an obvious point, which I will not let, I find myself doing that more then I would like.

URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-778

Is this correct?

- Maurice

On Aug 21, 2013, at 01:41 AM, "Musayev, Ilya" <im...@webmd.net>> wrote:
Have you looked at CLOUDSTACK-778?

-----Original Message-----
From: Maurice Lawler [mailto:maurice.lawler@me.com<ma...@me.com>]
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 9:25 PM
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org<ma...@cloudstack.apache.org>
Cc: Marcus Sorensen
Subject: Re: Instance Names

You suggest that I should leave my mistake as is. If you are unsure of the issues it may cause upon instance rebooting, I just thought it would be easy to just update a line in the database as it was mentioned to me, in the vm_instance table...

On Aug 19, 2013, at 11:46 PM, Marcus Sorensen <sh...@gmail.com>> wrote:


You can edit the display name via API or the UI's edit button, but
that only changes what shows up in the UI, not the name of the host
itself (e.g. when you log in and do 'hostname'). To change the actual
name in the vm_instance table, column 'name'. I'm not entirely sure
what the repercussions of that are.
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Todd Pigram <to...@toddpigram.com>> wrote:
vm_instance
On Monday, August 19, 2013, Maurice Lawler wrote:
Greetings,
I'm hoping someone can point me into the right direction, I have
provisioned an instanced; however, I failed to create a name for it.
Now in my list of instances, I see the UUID and not a 'custom' name so to speak.
I'm sure this can easily be manipulated via the database, however; I
am looking through docs etc, unsure where to make changes.
Any guidance would be greatly appreciate!
- M.

RE: Instance Names

["Musayev, Ilya" <im...@webmd.net>]

Have you looked at CLOUDSTACK-778?

-----Original Message-----
From: Maurice Lawler [mailto:maurice.lawler@me.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 9:25 PM
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Cc: Marcus Sorensen
Subject: Re: Instance Names

You suggest that I should leave my mistake as is. If you are unsure of the issues it may cause upon instance rebooting, I just thought it would be easy to just update a line in the database as it was mentioned to me, in the vm_instance table...

On Aug 19, 2013, at 11:46 PM, Marcus Sorensen <sh...@gmail.com> wrote:

> You can edit the display name via API or the UI's edit button, but 
> that only changes what shows up in the UI, not the name of the host 
> itself (e.g. when you log in and do 'hostname'). To change the actual 
> name in the vm_instance table, column 'name'. I'm not entirely sure 
> what the repercussions of that are.
> 
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Todd Pigram <to...@toddpigram.com> wrote:
>> vm_instance
>> 
>> On Monday, August 19, 2013, Maurice Lawler wrote:
>> 
>>> Greetings,
>>> 
>>> I'm hoping someone can point me into the right direction, I have 
>>> provisioned an instanced; however, I failed to create a name for it. 
>>> Now in my list of instances, I see the UUID and not a 'custom' name so to speak.
>>> I'm sure this can easily be manipulated via the database, however; I 
>>> am looking through docs etc, unsure where to make changes.
>>> 
>>> Any guidance would be greatly appreciate!
>>> 
>>> - M.

Re: Instance Names

[Maurice Lawler <ma...@me.com>]

You suggest that I should leave my mistake as is. If you are unsure of the issues it may cause upon instance rebooting, I just thought it would be easy to just update a line in the database as it was mentioned to me, in the vm_instance table…

On Aug 19, 2013, at 11:46 PM, Marcus Sorensen <sh...@gmail.com> wrote:

> You can edit the display name via API or the UI's edit button, but
> that only changes what shows up in the UI, not the name of the host
> itself (e.g. when you log in and do 'hostname'). To change the actual
> name in the vm_instance table, column 'name'. I'm not entirely sure
> what the repercussions of that are.
> 
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Todd Pigram <to...@toddpigram.com> wrote:
>> vm_instance
>> 
>> On Monday, August 19, 2013, Maurice Lawler wrote:
>> 
>>> Greetings,
>>> 
>>> I'm hoping someone can point me into the right direction, I have
>>> provisioned an instanced; however, I failed to create a name for it. Now in
>>> my list of instances, I see the UUID and not a 'custom' name so to speak.
>>> I'm sure this can easily be manipulated via the database, however; I am
>>> looking through docs etc, unsure where to make changes.
>>> 
>>> Any guidance would be greatly appreciate!
>>> 
>>> - M.

Re: Instance Names

[Marcus Sorensen <sh...@gmail.com>]

You can edit the display name via API or the UI's edit button, but
that only changes what shows up in the UI, not the name of the host
itself (e.g. when you log in and do 'hostname'). To change the actual
name in the vm_instance table, column 'name'. I'm not entirely sure
what the repercussions of that are.

On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Todd Pigram <to...@toddpigram.com> wrote:
> vm_instance
>
> On Monday, August 19, 2013, Maurice Lawler wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I'm hoping someone can point me into the right direction, I have
>> provisioned an instanced; however, I failed to create a name for it. Now in
>> my list of instances, I see the UUID and not a 'custom' name so to speak.
>> I'm sure this can easily be manipulated via the database, however; I am
>> looking through docs etc, unsure where to make changes.
>>
>> Any guidance would be greatly appreciate!
>>
>> - M.

Re: Instance Names

[Todd Pigram <to...@toddpigram.com>]

vm_instance

On Monday, August 19, 2013, Maurice Lawler wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I'm hoping someone can point me into the right direction, I have
> provisioned an instanced; however, I failed to create a name for it. Now in
> my list of instances, I see the UUID and not a 'custom' name so to speak.
> I'm sure this can easily be manipulated via the database, however; I am
> looking through docs etc, unsure where to make changes.
>
> Any guidance would be greatly appreciate!
>
> - M.