VC of custom attributes in a report or dashboard

Hello
Is there a way to get a specific custom attribute in a report or dashboard?
I create a query but I do not see how to select a specific attributes of the VC
Kind regards
Ronald

Hello Ronald.
Are you collecting VC of custom attributes? What does the collector agent configuration file (foglightagent.winservice.exe.config) see flag below the?


Fake

If you collect those then below article should help:
vcommunity.Vizioncore.com/.../Easily-Create-vFoglight-services-based-on-vCenter-Custom-Attributes.aspx
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    PowerCLI C:\Program Files (x 86) \VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\scripts >.\setvmownership.ps1

    Owner of the company that owns SSG host name

    --------                                              --------------                                       ---------

    ABPPROXY-00-AH

    ACE-01-AH hung Laallmmi hung Laallmmi

    Get - VM: could not validate the argument on the parameter 'name '. The argument is null or empty. Provide an argument that is not null or empty, and then try the AGM of the order

    in.

    To C:\Program Files (x 86) \VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\scripts\setvmownership.ps1:13 char: 29

    + $hostname = get-VM-name < < < < $vmname;

    + CategoryInfo: InvalidData: (:)) [Get - VM], ParameterBindingValidationException)

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId: ParameterArgumentValidationError, VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.GetVM

    Set Annotation: Impossible to validate the argument on the parameter "entity". The argument is null. Supply a non-null argument, and try the command again.

    C:\Program Files (x 86) \VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\scripts\setvmownership.ps1:17 char: 23

    + Set-Annotation - entity < < < < $hostname - CustomAttribute "Business system owner" - value $SSG_owner

    + CategoryInfo: InvalidData: (:)) [game-Annotation], ParameterBindingValidationException)

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId: ParameterArgumentValidationError, VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.SetAnnotation

    Set Annotation: Impossible to validate the argument on the parameter "entity". The argument is null. Supply a non-null argument, and try the command again.

    C:\Program Files (x 86) \VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\scripts\setvmownership.ps1:18 char: 23

    + Set-Annotation - entity < < < < $hostname - CustomAttribute "SSG system owner" - value $system_owner

    + CategoryInfo: InvalidData: (:)) [game-Annotation], ParameterBindingValidationException)

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId: ParameterArgumentValidationError, VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.SetAnnotation

    Get - VM: could not validate the argument on the parameter 'name '. The argument is null or empty. Provide an argument that is not null or empty, and then try the AGM of the order

    in.

    To C:\Program Files (x 86) \VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\scripts\setvmownership.ps1:13 char: 29

    + $hostname = get-VM-name < < < < $vmname;

    + CategoryInfo: InvalidData: (:)) [Get - VM], ParameterBindingValidationException)

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId: ParameterArgumentValidationError, VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.GetVM

    Set Annotation: Impossible to validate the argument on the parameter "entity". The argument is null. Supply a non-null argument, and try the command again.

    C:\Program Files (x 86) \VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\scripts\setvmownership.ps1:17 char: 23

    + Set-Annotation - entity < < < < $hostname - CustomAttribute "Business system owner" - value $SSG_owner

    + CategoryInfo: InvalidData: (:)) [game-Annotation], ParameterBindingValidationException)

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId: ParameterArgumentValidationError, VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.SetAnnotation

    Set Annotation: Impossible to validate the argument on the parameter "entity". The argument is null. Supply a non-null argument, and try the command again.

    C:\Program Files (x 86) \VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\scripts\setvmownership.ps1:18 char: 23

    + Set-Annotation - entity < < < < $hostname - CustomAttribute "SSG system owner" - value $system_owner

    + CategoryInfo: InvalidData: (:)) [game-Annotation], ParameterBindingValidationException)

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId: ParameterArgumentValidationError, VMware.VimAutomation.ViCore.Cmdlets.Commands.SetAnnotation

    The CSV file looks like this (but continues for about 500 VMS):

    I go with the option import-csv because that said something that I read in my troubleshooting efforts would empty columns and error I received and that import-csv correctly would intrepret in empty columns.

    hostname, business_owner, system_owner,

    ABPPROXY-00-AH,

    ACE-01-AH, James Laallmmi, James Laallmmi,

    acrodev-00-ah, tflessa, Bruce Hastings,.

    ACT1DDB00AH, Bill Mancini, Mike Bruni,

    ACT1TDB00AH, Bill Mancini, Mike Bruni,

    What should I do to be able to get this script to work? I don't know that it is related to messages "argument is null." that we see in the output.

    Thank you

    Dan

    Hello, dscottimw-

    You were on the right track.  There were a couple of things to change to make it work as you want:

    1. either remove the "-header" part of the Import-Csv line or delete the actual header of the CSV itself - these are elements in conflict (the "-Header" param names of the columns in the CSV and assumes that the CSV file has already no header row)
    2. you need to access the properties of the $row variable in the ForEach loop - not only call the names of the CSV column headers (this is why you may receive errors on things 'null' - whether you use variables that have no value)

    Try this:

    # Input array, includes all VM names from DCI that are registered.$arrVMsInfo = Import-Csv "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\scripts\vmowners1.csv"#Write-Output $data

## loop through all VMs listed in the CSV, setting custom attrib values for eachForEach ($row in $arrVMsInfo) {    ## get the VM for this row    $vmThisOne = Get-VM -Name $row.hostname    Set-Annotation -Entity $vmThisOne -CustomAttribute "Business System Owner" -Value $row.business_owner    Set-Annotation -Entity $vmThisOne -CustomAttribute "SSG System Owner" -Value $row.system_owner} ## end foreach

    And, to give it a shot without actually play the game on annotations, to make sure things go as you like, you could add a - WhatIf to each line in Set-Annotation in the ForEach loop.

    Which works better for you?

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