Is the 'Host name' on a Virtual Machine captured from Discovery?

[mikegrynch]

It's my understanding that 'Host name' on a virtual server is not captured from Discovery, however, we have several virtual servers that currently has the 'Name' of the server in the 'Host name' field. This seems to be coming from Discovery. How is that getting populated, and if that is getting populated, how can we get it to display the actual host name?

Example:

Name                                     Host name

exampleserver1       exampleserver1           <--how it is currently

exampleserver1       abcd10.erieinsurance.com   <--how we would like it to display

Thanks,

Mike G

[Priya C]

Hi All @mikegrynch , @doug.schulze 

I am facing one issue in getting the hostname of the VM that we are setting using userdata in cloudformation template. Script is working good and VM name is also set.

But in servicenow nic table I am getting this field empty:

Can you please help me on this. 

1.Why that field is empty.

1. Do I need to tag it separately in template or it should come here.

2. but as the parameter is in Userdata(like this $hostname) how can I get that in servicenow 

Thanks and Regards,

Priya