Create Custom Properties and Groups
You can create custom properties with one or more values that can be assigned to compute instances. You then assign custom properties to resources so you can create custom groupings of resources for migration and filter the list of compute instances by specific property/value pairs.
For example, you might want to identify all compute instances that are associated with a development environment and others that are associated with operations. You can create a property called "Environment" and two values, "dev" and "prod". You can then filter by "Environment" and see all compute instances with the Environment tag, or you can filter by one or more values to further refine your output.
About This Task
You must associate the properties with compute instances to create custom groups, and those groups must be analyzed from the Inventory page. You will then be able to access details about the custom groups from the List and Summary pages.
Steps
Navigate to Inventory.
Click Applications > Manage Custom Properties.
Click Add Custom Property, enter the property name, and then click Apply.
The name of the property displays on the Inventory page, in place of "Applications". For example, if you named the property Environment, that name will now display at the top of the column previously labeled "Applications".
Click
next to the new property name to add a value to the property.
Enter a name for the property value and click Create.
You can create multiple property values at one time by entering a comma-separated list or pressing Enter after each value. Enter them individually or paste them in bulk.
To assign compute instances to the value (create a custom group), do one of the following:
Select the instances, grab them, and then drag and drop them on the property value.
Select the instances, right-click over them, click Set Custom Properties from the drop-down, and type in a new value or choose an existing value.
A message displays at the bottom of the page stating the number of instances copied and the properties to which they were assigned.
Click Save.
You must save before you can calculate your grouped resources.
The new custom group name appears in the navigation pane, but no content is associated with it yet.
Select the custom property names for the resources you want to analyze.
The following changes occur in the UI:
The Calculate button text changes, indicating you can calculate dependencies for just the selected property value.
The property and value display as a filter above the compute instances list.
The compute instances list displays only the instances associated with the selected property value.
Click Calculate for....
To view the results of the custom group calculations, click the custom group name in the navigation pane.
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