Using the Custom Properties tab in the Servers view, you can manage custom property values for one or more selected physical computers or logical servers. You can create a new custom property value or apply an existing custom property value to the selected objects.
Using custom property information, you can:
Override the parameter value for an ad-hoc or monitoring policy job that runs on a physical computer. To do this, you must configure the job to use the custom property as a parameter override. AppManager only overrides the original job parameter value when the job runs on physical computers where you defined the custom property. If the job runs on logical servers where you defined the custom property, AppManager ignores the custom property.
After you add a custom property value to a physical computer and a job you configured to use the custom property as a parameter override runs on the computer, AppManager no longer uses the original job parameter value. You can also change the override value by updating the custom property value.
For more information about using job overrides, see Section 5.5, Setting Override Values.
Configure a rule-based management group to select physical computers or logical servers based on custom property information.
You can only include physical computers with version 7.0 (or later) of the AppManager agent installed. If you have AppManager 6.0.2 (or earlier) agents, upgrade them to version 7.0 (or later) to include them in a rule-based management group that selects physical computers based on custom property information.
You can only include logical servers that are associated with version 8.2 (or later) QDBs. If you have logical servers that are associated with QDBs earlier than version 8.2, upgrade the QDBs to version 8.2 (or later) to include the logical servers in a rule-based management group that selects logical servers based on custom property information.
If you use one of the custom property expression templates that are available for logical servers to assign the same custom property to a physical computer and a logical server that is a child of the physical computer, the resulting rule-based management group contains both the physical computer and the logical server as parent objects within the Servers view for the management group. If you expand the physical computer to view its child objects, the logical server also appears as a child object of the physical computer.
Any custom properties you add are available for use in the custom property expression templates. Add one or more custom properties to a physical computer or logical server to provide custom information about that object. For example, you can add a custom property to identify objects by geographic location.