Allow arbitrary naming of DSC nodes
If I have multiple VM's in multiple regions and the VM name is duplicated, there's no easy way to know which is which. Can we have some control of the name used when registering the VM? Or can we have some mechanism to apply and view tags?
Charlie Holland
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Appreciate all of the feedback in this area. This is something we believe we can address in the future. Thank you!
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kubilay
commented
Adding VM's Resource Group Name column into the DSC Nodes blade in the Portal may help.
Below is PS script which adds VM Resource Group Name as the first column.
Hope this helps until the Portal is updated.1. Please save the below script as file name Get-AzureRmAutomationDscNode-WithVMsRGName.ps1.
2. Then run it in a local PowerShell windows as:
.\Get-AzureRmAutomationDscNode-WithVMsRGName.ps1 -AutomationResourceGroupName YourAutomationRGName -AutomationAccountName YourAutomationAccountNameparam(
[Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
[String] $AutomationResourceGroupName,[Parameter(Mandatory = $true)]
[String] $AutomationAccountName
)
import-module AzureRM.profile -MinimumVersion 4.0.0
Add-AzureRmAccountImport-Module AzureRM.Automation
Import-Module AzureRM.Network$dscNodes = Get-AzureRmAutomationDscNode -ResourceGroupName $AutomationResourceGroupName -AutomationAccountName $AutomationAccountName
$dscNodesWithRgName = @()
foreach($dscNode in $dscNodes)
{
$ipOfDsc = $dscNode.IpAddress.Split(";")[0]
$vmRgName = (Get-AzureRmNetworkInterface | where { $_.IpConfigurations.PrivateIpAddress -eq "$ipOfDsc" }).ResourceGroupName$dscNode | Add-Member -NotePropertyName VmRgName -NotePropertyValue $vmRgName
$dscNodesWithRgName += $dscNode
}
$dscNodesWithRgName | select -Property VmRgName,Name,Status, NodeConfigurationName,LastSeen | ft -
Michael Waterman
commented
Votes added, we have the same issue. Changing the name in something that we control would be great.