We would like to be able to display a human readable name along with the Node ID in the page footer in order to have a more descriptive identifier of which node is active. The active node indicator in the footer of Bamboo uses the node.id value from the <bamboo-home>/cluster-node.properties. Since changing the node.id can cause issues with the cluster locks it's necessary to utilize the node.name property which is not currently displayed. In order to have the node name displayed, it is currently necessary to add a static line with the node name in the <bamboo-install>/atlassian-bamboo/fragments/decorator/footer.ftl.

In other atlassian products the node name is displayed similarly to the node ID by reading the node.name from the cluster-node.properties as below:

[@ww.param value=ctx.getNodeName()/]

The existing syntax that displays the Node ID is essentially the with the exception of which key it calls.

[@ww.param value=ctx.getNodeId()/]

We would like to see Bamboo use a similar method to simplify the use of human readable names in the Bamboo footer.