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Automating Services based on vCenter Custom Attributes – Updated
May 18th
It’s been awhile since my last post, I’ve been busy traveling around and what not. Today, I’m going to be sharing some new code that does something pretty cool in vFoglight/Foglight. As mentioned in a previous article, you can use Dynamic Managed Components to create services based off any attribute or query you can come up with. Well, what I have to share today will do all of this work for you.
Let’s say you have an attribute in vCenter called Business Units. Each VM in vCenter has a value listed, some are assigned to Sales, some to Marketing, so on More >
Associating Custom Attributes in vFoglight
Jan 10th
I am often asked how to associate a custom attribute in vCenter to a group in vFoglight. To do this in vFoglight we create a Service. For an example I’m going to use the Custom Attribute called “Business Unit” to create service for all VMs that have “Business Unit” set to “Sales”
First, we need to turn on Custom Attribute collection. In vFoglight Pro 6.0, the default collection is to not collect CA’s. To change this, we must navigate to the collector installation path.
- If you have a default installation it is C:\Program Files\Vizioncore\vFoglight\VMware Agent
- Edit the FoglightAgent.WinService.exe.config with your favorite text editor
- Look More >
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