How to add custom property in 'Cloud Hosting' tab under Inventory (FlexNet Manager Suite)

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Symptoms:

In 2019 R1+ version , FlexNet Manager Suite can integrate with cloud service product such as Amazon , Azure. The inventory machine created from those cloud providers will have a new tab "Cloud Hosting" when the user open an inventory.

This article is to provide the instructions how to add custom properties such as text field in the sample code in the 'Cloud Hosting' tab.

Diagnosis:

In general, from online help System Reference do contain all the details steps and objects' internal name when creating custom properties in below link

https://docs.flexera.com/fnms2019r1/EN/WebHelp/PDF%20Documents/On-Prem/FNMSSystemReference.pdf

However due to the resource limitation reason etc, the information for adding custom property in this tab is not included

Solution:

The internal property names for "Cloud Hosting" are as follows:

Tags:

Tag_CloudInstanceOnlyProperties
= vm or computer
Tag_CloudHostOnlyProperties
= vmhost

Type	Name
LayoutTab	Tab_CloudProperties
LayoutSection	Section_VMCloudProperties
LayoutProperty	Cloud_HostID
LayoutProperty	Cloud_InstanceType
LayoutProperty	Cloud_AvailabilityZone
LayoutProperty	Cloud_InstanceRegion
LayoutProperty	Cloud_LaunchTime

Tag_CloudInstanceOnlyProperties

Type	Name
LayoutProperty	InstanceCloudID
LayoutProperty	Cloud_ImageID
LayoutProperty	Cloud_Account
LayoutProperty	Cloud_NetworkID
LayoutProperty	Cloud_MACAddress
LayoutProperty	Cloud_Cores
LayoutProperty	Cloud_ThreadsPerCore
LayoutProperty	Cloud_LastKnownState
LayoutProperty	Cloud_InstanceTenancy
LayoutProperty	Cloud_LifeCycleMode
LayoutProperty	Cloud_LaunchTime

Tag_CloudHostOnlyProperties

Type	Name
LayoutProperty	Cloud_Host_LastKnownState

A sample code is list below (Please backup your DB before trying)

EXEC dbo.AddSectionToWebUIPropertiesPage
	@TargetTypeID = 14,
	@ExcludeTargetSubTypeIDs = '',
	@Name = 'ComputerProperties_Cloud_AdditionalProperties',
	@CultureType = 'en-US',
	@DisplayNameInPage = 'Additional Properties',
	@TabName = 'Tab_CloudProperties',
	@UIInsertTypeID = 2, -- 1 == before, 2 == after, 3 == start of
	@RelativePositionTo = 'Cloud_LaunchTime'

The above code will add new custom property as showing in the picture in the attachment session

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