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
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