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How to automatically tag an esx host

antonio_villarr
Advisor

Hi,

Recently setup vmware integration for a customer. We are starting with one vcenter, with a dozen of esx servers, but could add more in the future. So, I would really appreciate to automatically tag these servers (esx).

Is this possible?

Thanks.

Antonio V.


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david_n
Inactive

Hello Antonio,

You can use the automatically applied tag rules to create the tags for your esxi hosts.

Here is how you would do that, settings -> tags -> automatically applied tags -> create tag and then select rule applies to hosts -> conditions would allow you to select vmware name or esxi host name.

You can also define your tag value name based on those metrics as well.

Thanks,

David Nicholls


Hi,

Thank you for your answer. The thing is that in the customer environment, the esx servers does not have oneagent installed. So this procedure, would end up tagging the virtual machines, not the esx servers.

Later, I asked this in the product chat, and it is not possible automatically, only manually.

Kind regards,

Antonio V.


Hi Antonio

What did you do tag to ESXI host?

Hello @sundarv1 

This is the old Dynatrace managed version.

Simply:

  1. David had created an automatically applied tag to tag the services.
  2. As shown on the UI, there is a placeholder for the optional tag value to differentiate the services based on the available options.
  3. Selected the matched conditions
  4. Saved the tagging rules.

Hoping it adds value.

KR,

Peter

 

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