Naming Members in vFabric SQLFire

I find it useful to give a member a meaningful  name. In SQLFire you could simply give each member a name by adding a property "name" as follows to the sqlfire.properties file for the member.

sqlfire.properties

# sqlfire.properties for data store or accessor member
license-serial-number=XXXXXXXXXXX
name=server1

Note: The same can be done with GemFire as well.

Then when the system is up the ID for each system member includes the given name as shown below.

  
sqlf> select substr(id, 1 , 35) as "Member" from sys.members;
Member                             
-----------------------------------
172.16.62.1(server2:38971)<v2>:4265
172.16.62.1(server1:38970)<v1>:1660
127.0.0.1(38744):29535             

3 rows selected