[Openstack] Instance Name in DB

Jay Lau jay.lau.513 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 23 08:34:24 UTC 2014


Chris is right, please take a look at
[1]
https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/nova/db/sqlalchemy/models.py#L177
[2] https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/nova/db/api.py#L43


2014-04-23 16:16 GMT+08:00 Chris Behrens <cbehrens at codestud.com>:

> Without looking at code, that's probably the magic name generated on the
> fly based on the instance_name_template config setting. It's not stored in
> the DB. It's built based on other attributes of the instance (by default I
> believe it's still the primary key (id) of that row in the DB).
>
> On Apr 23, 2014, at 1:10 AM, Reza Bakhshayeshi <reza.b2008 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Thanks Chris for your reply,
> but I meant the "OS-EXT-SRV-ATTR:instance_name" row in "nova show
> <instance uuid>" result.
>
>
> On 23 April 2014 12:20, Chris Behrens <cbehrens at codestud.com> wrote:
>
>> In the DB, that should be the display_name column of instances table.
>>
>> - Chris
>>
>> On Apr 22, 2014, at 11:56 PM, Reza Bakhshayeshi <reza.b2008 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> How I can find the "instance_name" in database?
>> (it appears in the result of nova show)
>> I have checked the instances table in nova database but I couldn't find
>> it.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Reza
>>
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Thanks,

Jay
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