systems and methods are disclosed herein to a method for providing a system name of a computer system , comprises generating a system id key based on a system type of the computer system using an external key generator module ; installing the system id key on the computer system in an active operating state by extracting the system name from the system id key ; updating operating system structures for immediate use of the system name ; writing a machine name index into halt / load parameters that are implemented by the computer system for subsequent restarts of the computer system after suspending the computer system , wherein the machine name index identifies a location of the system name in a system registry ; and writing the system name into the system registry from the system id key .