In this topic, you can find information about configuring a collector manager to use the property tagging filter.

Procedure

  1. To transfer the data collected by the vmware-vcenter collector manager to the , run the following command:
    ls -al /opt/APG/Collecting/Collector-Manager/

    Output:

    total 32
drwxr-x---  8 apg apg 4096 Aug  5 21:38 .
drwxr-x--- 21 apg apg 4096 Aug  5 21:38 ..
drwxr-xr-x  6 apg apg 4096 Aug  7 20:19 Default
drwxr-xr-x  6 apg apg 4096 Aug  7 20:19 emc-smarts
drwxr-x---  6 apg apg 4096 Aug  7 20:22 Generic-RSC
drwxr-x---  6 apg apg 4096 Aug  7 20:20 Generic-SNMP
drwxr-x---  6 apg apg 4096 Aug  7 20:22 Load-Balancer
drwxr-xr-x  6 apg apg 4096 Aug  7 20:22 vmware-vcenter
    Note: Ensure that, collector manager uses newly created PTF.
  2. Edit the main configuration file of the vmware-vcenter, by running the following command:
    vi /opt/APG/Collecting/Collector-Manager/vmware-vcenter/conf/collecting.xml
    Output: 
    <config xmlns="http://www.watch4net.com/APG/Collecting" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.watch4net.com/APG/Collecting collecting.xsd ">
  <connectors>
    <connector enabled="true" name="Backend" type="Socket-Connector" config="conf/socketconnector.xml" />
    <connector enabled="true" name="TOPO-Backend" type="Socket-Connector" config="conf/topoconnector.xml" />
    <connector enabled="true" name="Kafka" type="Kafka-Connector" config="Kafka-Connector/Default/conf/kafka-connector.xml" />
    <connector enabled="false" name="File" type="File-Connector" config="conf/file-connector.xml"/>
  </connectors>
  <filters>
    <!-- TOPO filters -->
    <filter enabled="true" name="VMWARE_TOPO_VHF2" next="TOPO-Backend" config="Variable-Handling-Filter/vmware-vcenter/conf/variable-handling-filter-topo2.xml"/>
    <filter enabled="true" name="VMWARE_TOPO_PTF1" next="VMWARE_TOPO_VHF2" config="Property-Tagging-Filter/vmware-vcenter/conf/vmware-tagging-topo.xml"/>
    <filter enabled="true" name="VMWARE_TOPO_VHF1" next="VMWARE_TOPO_PTF1" config="Variable-Handling-Filter/vmware-vcenter/conf/variable-handling-filter-topo.xml"/>
 
    <!-- APG filters -->
    <filter enabled="true" name="FailOver" next="Backend Kafka" config="FailOver-Filter/vmware-vcenter/conf/failover-backend.xml" />
    <!-- Power Path tagging: Operations array workload distribution -->
    <filter enabled="true" name="PTF-PowerPath-Tagging" next="FailOver VMWARE_TOPO_VHF1" config="Property-Tagging-Filter/vmware-vcenter/conf/PTF-PowerPath-Tagging.xml" />
    <!-- User defined groups: used in chargeback reports -->
    <filter enabled="skip" name="User_Defined_Group_Management" next="PTF-PowerPath-Tagging" config="Property-Tagging-Filter/vmware-vcenter/conf/PTF-Group-Tagging.xml" />
    <!-- Business Unit & Application: used in inventory reports -->
    <filter enabled="skip" name="PTF-Business-Tagging" next="User_Defined_Group_Management" config="Property-Tagging-Filter/vmware-vcenter/conf/PTF-Business-Tagging.xml" />
    <!-- Customer-defined enrichment (ex: CMDB integration) -->
    <filter enabled="true" name="DataEnrichment" next="PTF-Business-Tagging" config="Property-Tagging-Filter/vmware-vcenter/conf/property-tagging-filter.xml" />
 
    <!-- Common filters -->
    <filter enabled="true" name="VMWARE-VIPR-PTF" next="DataEnrichment" config="Property-Tagging-Filter/vmware-vcenter/conf/PTF-ViPR-Tagging.xml" />
    <filter enabled="true" name="VMWARE-GroupFilter" next="VMWARE-VIPR-PTF" config="Group-Filter/vmware-vcenter/conf/virtualdiskpart.xml" />
    <filter enabled="true" name="VMWARE-CLEANUP" next="VMWARE-GroupFilter" config="Variable-Handling-Filter/vmware-vcenter/conf/variable-handling-filter-vmware-cleanup.xml"/>
   <filter enabled="true" name="VMWARE-CB-VHF" next="VMWARE-CLEANUP" config="Variable-Handling-Filter/vmware-vcenter/conf/variable-handling-filter-cb-vmware.xml"/>
    <filter enabled="true" name="VMWARE-CRF" next="VMWARE-CB-VHF" config="Cross-Referencing-Filter/vmware-vcenter/conf/crf_isused.xml"/>
    <filter enabled="true" name="VMWARE-NORM-PTF" next="VMWARE-CRF" config="Property-Tagging-Filter/vmware-vcenter/conf/PTF-Zero-Tagging.xml"/>
    <filter enabled="true" name="VMWARE-XIV-PTF" next="VMWARE-NORM-PTF" config="Property-Tagging-Filter/vmware-vcenter/conf/PTF-XIV-Tagging.xml"/>
    <filter enabled="true" name="VMWARE-PTF" next="VMWARE-XIV-PTF" config="Property-Tagging-Filter/vmware-vcenter/conf/vmware-tagging-fcwwn.xml"/>
    <filter enabled="true" name="VMWARE-PCF" next="VMWARE-PTF" config="Property-Concat-Filter/vmware-vcenter/conf/property-concat-filter-vmware.xml"/>
    <filter enabled="true" name="VMWARE-ICF" next="VMWARE-PCF" config="Inline-Calculation-Filter/vmware-vcenter/conf/icf-vmware-presentedcap.xml"/>
    <filter enabled="true" name="VMWARE-VHF" next="VMWARE-ICF" config="Variable-Handling-Filter/vmware-vcenter/conf/variable-handling-filter-vmware.xml"/>
 
  </filters>
  <collectors>
    <collector enabled="true" name="VMWareCollector" next="VMWARE-VHF" type="VMWare-Collector" config="VMWare-Collector/vmware-vcenter/conf/vmware-collector.xml" />
    <collector enabled="true" name="VMWareCollectorVMFiles" next="VMWARE-VHF" type="VMWare-Collector" config="VMWare-Collector/vmware-vcenter/conf/vmware-collector-vmfiles.xml" />
    <collector enabled="true" name="VMWareCollectorDatastoreClusters" next="VMWARE-VHF" type="VMWare-Collector" config="VMWare-Collector/vmware-vcenter/conf/vmware-collector-datastoreclusters.xml" />
  </collectors>
</config>
    Note: Ensure that, you have defined your PTF in the filter section. Also, you are referencing your filter in the chain of filters the collected data is sent to (see the italic code in the earlier code block, for more information.)
  3. To restart the collector manager, run the following command:
    /opt/APG/bin/manage-modules.sh service restart collector-manager vmware-vcenter