Help please: Build custom groups based on Vcenter Custom Attribute ( VM )

[chakoe]

Hi all,

I´m using Vcenter 6.7.x and vRops 8.3.0 .

Inside Vcenter, we have a CustomAttribute ( Type VirtualMachine , Name VMInfo )

When i check one of our VMs in vROPS ( Properties > Summary > Custom Tag > VMInfo > Value ) everything is fine.

But when i wanted to build a custom group for VMs based on this Custom Tag, i cannot choose the Tag VMInfo.

Acutally, the group type is "Service Level Objective" , Membership Criteria is based in Virtual Machine

Where´s my mistake ?

Thank you in advance...

[lannguyen]

Assuming that your vSphere Tag has the word vminfo in it.  Are you need to do is set it to filter to contains vminfo.  See below screenshot

[chakoe]

Hi & good Morning , 

that´s the Problem 🙂 

Here´s my example-Output from PowerCLI:

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-CustomAttribute| ft -AutoSize

Key Name TargetType
--- ---- ----------
43 AutoDeploy.MachineIdentity VMHost
201 Installation.StatusCode VMHost
202 Installation.StatusDescription VMHost
203 Installation.StatusTimeStamp VMHost
101 MgmtNetwork Cluster
102 Standort Cluster
301 VMInfo VirtualMachine
103 Verfuegbarkeitslevel Cluster
1 com.vmware.vcIntegrity.customField.scheduledTask.action
2 com.vmware.vcIntegrity.customField.scheduledTask.signature
3 com.vmware.vcIntegrity.customField.scheduledTask.target

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> $a= get-vm VM34887
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> $a.CustomFields

Key Value
--- -----
VMInfo WebServer

Navigating through the VM in vrops ( Properties , Summary , Custom Tag , VMinfo ) works fine. But when i try to build the custom group, i cannot choose the Tag vminfo...

[lannguyen]

So you did this using scripts.  Tagging in vCenter works better as it is easier to manage from vCenter and it will show up in vROPS. I don't do script tagging so can't help you here