How to name an Auto Scaling Group in a CloudFormation template?

Question

I have a CloudFormation template that creates an auto scaling group (among other things). How can I give the auto scaling group a name in the template?
The AWS docs do not mention anything (http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-properties-as-group.html), and its possible to do if I create it trough the AWS website. (I need to give a group a name because I need to find this group from another script)

EDIT: I've tried to add a tag called "Name", but it still does not work:

"Resources": {
"MyServerGroup" : {
  "Type" : "AWS::AutoScaling::AutoScalingGroup",
  "Properties" : {
    "AvailabilityZones" : { "Fn::GetAZs" : ""},
    "LaunchConfigurationName" : { "Ref" : "LaunchConfig" },
    "MinSize" : { "Ref" : "ServerCount" },
    "MaxSize" : { "Ref" : "ServerCount" },
    "DesiredCapacity" : { "Ref" : "ServerCount" },
    "LoadBalancerNames" : [ { "Ref" : "ElasticLoadBalancerName" } ],
    "Tags" : [ {
      "Key" : "Name",
      "Value" : { "Ref" : "ServerName" },
      "PropagateAtLaunch" : "true"
    } ]
  },
  "CreationPolicy": {
    "ResourceSignal": {
      "Count": "2",
      "Timeout": "PT5M"
    }
  }
},

The name column in the AWS console still displays something like "MyStackName-MyServerGroup-345MH3NF34N7E", and in the Tags field I can see the key-value pair for the Name tag that I added.

Answer 1

Although naming the AutoScalingGroup (ASG) doesn't seem to be possible, you can export the name assigned when the ASG is created by the CloudFormation (CF) template by using the following:

  Outputs:
  AutoScalingGroupName:
    Description: "AutoScalingGroup Name"
    Export:
      Name:
        Fn::Sub: ${AWS::StackName}-autoscalinggroupname
    Value: { Ref: AutoScalingGroup }

The ASG name can then be used in other CF templates, although this is perhaps not what the OP means by "find this group from another script".

Answer 2

CloudFormation now has a property called: AutoScalingGroupName

Description: "The name of the Auto Scaling group. Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 255. Must follow the following pattern: [\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\r\n\t]*" Type: String Required: No

see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-properties-as-group.html