When configuring custom group membership criteria, custom attributes cannot be queried as filter

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

The issue can be encountered in the scenario below:

• There are two VM folders named:
  • VM-Folder-01, with a global custom attribute "Global-Attr", the value is "Folder-01"
  • VM-Folder-02, with a global custom attribute "Global-Attr", the value is "Folder-02"
    
    
• There are two VMs names:
  • VM-01, locates in "VM-Folder-01", with a global custom attribute "Global-Attr", the value is "VM-01"
  • VM-02, locates in "VM-Folder-02", with a global custom attribute "Global-Attr", the value is "VM-02"
  • When checking VM-01 or VM-02 metrics, there is "Custom Tag" for "Custom Attribute" in "Properties" --> "Summary" --> "Custom Tag"
    
    
• When creating custom group in Aria operations:
  • selecting "Operations" --> "Configurations" --> "Add" --> "Define Membership Criteria", 
  • selecting "Virtual Machine" as object type,
  • There is no custom attribute (Custom Tag) in "Properties" --> "Summary"
    
    
    

Environment

Aria Operations 8.x

Cause

A global attribute is applied to different types of resources.

Resolution

The workaround is:

1. Export an existed custom group as json file
2. Modify the json according to requirement
3. Import the modified json file as new custom group