I have read the Eucalyptus documentation ( https://www.eucalyptus.com/docs/euca2ools/3.0/euca2ools-guide/euca-run-instances.html#euca-run-instances ) as well as searched on Google as well as in this site to following question and could not find a solution.
Is there a way to set a human readable server name when setting up a new server (currently a lengthy UID is arbitrarily set as the server name)?
Situation: I am setting up a specific server and the name of the instance in our IAAS cloud, The assigned server name is a generic UID.
I would like to be able to specify the instance name for a number of valid reasons but am unable to find a way to do this.
Via Command Line (will convert to script for rollout to prod):
euca-run-instances -n 1 -g <nameofSecurityGroup> -k <NameofValidKey> -t <instanceType i.e. c1.medium> $<VariableHolding_InstanceID>
This runs successfully but the UID set as the Server Name is unhelpful for the users/clients/admins.
RESTATED: Is there any way to set a name for this new instance that is human friendly?
Please advise any reasonable thoughts or suggestions.
Thank you.
Jim
After creating an instance you can use euca-create-tags instance_id --tag Name=Server to change the name of the instance.