How to add a unique name or description to an Amazon Workspace activated in Systems Manager?

Question

I have been deploying some Amazon Windows Workspaces to Systems Manager, and they now show up in Managed Nodes. However, they do not have any descriptive value like name, machine name etc. They only have the Node ID and thus far I haven't figured out a way to tie a Node ID to a unique human-readable identifier. I did find that I can enable the "Computer name" field in my console. However, our computer names are automatically generated and that doesn't offer much help when trying to track down a particular user's Workspace.

We deploy all our workspaces with the Name tag populated - Is there a way to programmatically add that to Systems Manager when onboarded? Or is there a parameter we can add to the Powershell script we run when registering the node?

Answer

Hello Matt

Please check out this [blog post](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/desktop-and-application-streaming/automate-copy-of-amazon-workspaces-tags-to-hybrid-activation-resources-in-aws-systems-manager/). This should address your use case.

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Hello,

Thank you for using AWS services!

For your use-case, we can suggest you a workaround by making use of cloud formation, lambda and eventbridge. You can reference an AWS blog post that goes through a similar process (Automate copy of Amazon WorkSpaces tags to hybrid activation resources in AWS Systems Manager) that could be adapted to suit your needs of tagging your nodes automatically:
[+] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/desktop-and-application-streaming/automate-copy-of-amazon-workspaces-tags-to-hybrid-activation-resources-in-aws-systems-manager/

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Perfect, thank you!

How to add a unique name or description to an Amazon Workspace activated in Systems Manager?

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