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Policy - All Virtual Systems by a Specific Vendor

The company is converting its data center to virtual resources over time. The system administrator wants a service container for all existing virtual machines and virtual machines that come online in the future.

The system administrator creates a dynamic service policy that automatically puts all virtual systems by vendor VMware, Inc. under a service.

The system administrator creates a new dynamic service policy using the Service Discovery Policy Editor wizard:

Define Service

The system administrator completes the Define Service page as follows:

Service Name: VirtualSystemsService

Relationship Type: Has Access To

The system administrator then completes the Target fields:

Class: Virtual System

Attribute: Vendor

Comparison Type: Equal To

Attribute Value: VMware, Inc.

The system administrator clicks Add and the criteria appear as shown in the following graphic:

Confirm

The dynamic services policy appears on the Confirm page as follows:

Dynamic Service Policy 'VirtualSystemsService'
WITH
    relationship 'Has Access To'
FOR
    Virtual System with properties
    (
        'Vendor' equals "VMware, Inc."
    )