Hi Ronald, It turns out that there is presently no native method for Environment or Account incremental instance count. As you had noted, you can achieve this use case with scripting and a third-party counter in conjunction with GV set to set and increment your own variable. Although this may not be the ideal solution, I hope that this helps.
Many thanks, Wm. Marc O'Brien Scalr Technical Support On Tuesday, June 14, 2016 at 7:53:43 AM UTC-6, [email protected] wrote: > > As I understand it, the global variable SCALR_INSTANCE_INDEX only has a > scope of its farm role. I was hoping to have one with a scope of the > environment or even of the account. We are going to be using environments > as organizations and they want to have a running index of all of their VMs. > > > On Monday, June 13, 2016 at 9:13:04 AM UTC-5, Jay Farschman wrote: >> >> Ronald, >> >> Maybe I don't understand what you want to to, but take a look at the >> "Environment Scope | Governance | Scalr | Server hostname format" >> >> {SCALR_FARM_ROLE_ALIAS}-{SCALR_INSTANCE_INDEX} >> >> Would that do it? >> >> On Wednesday, June 8, 2016 at 8:21:03 AM UTC-6, [email protected] >> wrote: >>> >>> It seems I can only modify global variables up to the farm or farm role >>> scope, not the environment or the account scope which is where I was >>> hoping. I don't see how a global variable at either of those scopes (farm >>> or farm role) can be applied to multiple VMs across an environment. We are >>> hoping to be able to name our hosts with a suffix that is an index that is >>> incremented once after each provision: -00001, -00002, -00003, and so on. I >>> guess the only way to do that is not with a sclar variable but with an >>> external database I guess. >>> >>> On Tuesday, June 7, 2016 at 1:14:53 PM UTC-5, [email protected] >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Is there a way to modify user defined global variables via scripts in >>>> Scalr? I haven't found a way to do so yet. I'm trying to find a way to >>>> have >>>> an index that is used for host names that is used across an entire >>>> environment. From what I see the SCALR_INSTANCE_INDEX variable is only >>>> good for a single farm role so it has too limited a scope. This is with >>>> Open Stack. Thanks. >>>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "scalr-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
