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Kelemvor
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5 months ago
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Can I monitor vCenter tags and create an alert if a computer doesn't have one?

Hi, We use vCenter to manage our VMs.  We have the hosts in LM.  We currently have a process where we get an email every morning that has VMs that don’t have any tags.  We use Tags to manage backup ...
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  • Patrick_Rouse's avatar
    Patrick_Rouse
    5 months ago

    We’re working on adding tag categories and tags to each vCenter VM instance in a format something like this:

    auto.vmware.vcenter.tag.TagCategoryName1 = TagName

    auto.vmware.vcenter.tag.TagCategoryName2 = TagName

    so, examples might look like:

    auto.vmware.vcenter.tag.Environment = Production

    auto.vmware.vcenter.tag.Application = MSSQL

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tswisdom
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5 months ago

Following up on @Patrick Rouse’s comment,

Once we’re pulling each VM instance’s tags into LogicMonitor, we could then create a simple DataSource that checks for the presence of the tag, and alerts when not present.

Similarly, a Dynamic Group may be created that includes resources where a given tag isn’t set using a negative pattern match for the Applies To Query, such as !auto.vmware.vcenter.tag.Environment