<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>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).</div><div><br>On Apr 23, 2014, at 1:10 AM, Reza Bakhshayeshi <<a href="mailto:reza.b2008@gmail.com">reza.b2008@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#000066">Thanks Chris for your reply, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#000066">but I meant the "OS-EXT-SRV-ATTR:instance_name" row in "nova show <instance uuid>" result.</div>

</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 23 April 2014 12:20, Chris Behrens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cbehrens@codestud.com" target="_blank">cbehrens@codestud.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>In the DB, that should be the display_name column of instances table.</div><div><br></div><div>- Chris</div>

<div><div class="h5"><div><br>On Apr 22, 2014, at 11:56 PM, Reza Bakhshayeshi <<a href="mailto:reza.b2008@gmail.com" target="_blank">reza.b2008@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">

<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#000066">Hi,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#000066"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#000066">



How I can find the "instance_name" in database?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#000066">(it appears in the result of nova show)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#000066">



I have checked the instances table in nova database but I couldn't find it.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#000066"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#000066">



Thanks,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:#000066">Reza</div></div>
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