Tag inheritance

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Hello forum, 

I am wondering if it is possible to inherit tags, based on the relationship. Let's say I have a ESX Host, that has a tag like 'SBA_high', is it possible to automatically assign the same tag to all the VMs running on that host? 

Hope I halfway explained what I want. 

Thanks in advance

[Niklas Peterson · Accepted solution]

Hi,

As long as you have a connection between the CIs that you can pickup then you can run a business rule that replicates the tags to other CIs. The tags are stored in the cmdb_key_value table. Remember to also remove the tags if they get removed from the "master" CI.

If you are using the tags for Tag based Service Mapping you don't need to replicate the tags. The CIs can be pulled into the service map based on their relationship by using traversal rules.

Regards,
Niklas