6.3

Add an Object Tag and Assign Objects to the Tag
An object tag is a type of information, and a tag value is an individual instance of that type of information. If
the predened object tags do not meet your needs, you can create your own object tags to categorize and
manage objects in your environment. For example, you can add a tag for cloud objects and add tag values
for dierent cloud names. Then you can assign objects to the cloud name.
Prerequisites
Become familiar with the predened object tags.
Procedure
1 Select Administration > Inventory Explorer.
2 Click the Manage Tags icon above the list of tags.
3 Click the Add New Tag icon to add a new row and type the name of the tag in the row.
For example, type Cloud Objects and click Update.
4 With the new tag selected, click the Add New Tag Value icon to add a new row and type the name of
the value in the row.
For example, type Video Cloud and click Update.
5 Click OK to add the tag.
6 Click the tag to which you want to add objects to display the list of object tag values.
For example, click Cloud Objects to display the Video Cloud object tag value.
7 Drag objects from the list in the right pane of the Inventory Explorer onto the tag value name.
You can press Ctrl+click to select multiple individual objects or Shift+click to select a range of objects.
For example, if you want to assign datacenters that are connected through the vCenter Adapter, type
vCenter in the search lter and select the datacenter objects to add.
Use a Tag to Find an Object
The quickest way to nd an object in vRealize Operations Manager is to use tags. Using tags is more ecient
than searching through the entire object list.
Tag values that can also be tags are Applications and Object Types. For example, the Object Types tag has
values for each object that is in vRealize Operations Manager, such as Virtual Machine, which includes all
the virtual machine objects in your environment. Each of these virtual machines is also a tag value for the
Virtual Machine tag. You can expand the tag value list to select the value for which you want to see objects.
Procedure
1 Select Administration > Inventory Explorer.
2 In the tag list in the center pane, click a tag for an object with an assigned value.
When you click a tag, the list of values expands under the tag. The number of objects that is associated
with each value appears next to the tag value.
A plus sign next to a tag value indicates that the value is also a tag and that it contains other tag values.
You can click the plus sign to see the subvalues.
3 Select the tag value.
The objects that have that tag value appear in the pane on the right. If you select multiple tag values, the
objects in the list depend on the values that you select.
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