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Excerpt

For the metadata attribute or object, Abiquo has the reserved keys that are described in the following table.

Metadata type	Reserved Keys	Description
Chef	chef	Users enter Chef recipe attributes as JSON in the UI, in the VM dialog on the Chef / Attributes tab Abiquo stores the recipe attributes that you enter in JSON format as an escaped string under the chef key
Bootstrap script	startup-script	Cloud-config for use by cloud-init Users enter Startup script in the UI, on the VM dialog on the Bootstrap script tab
Metrics	monitoring-metrics	Names of the metrics available for the VM – useful for accessing metrics via API
Custom		Append custom metadata to the existing metadata Do not use the Abiquo reserved metadata keys

VM metadata tutorial

This tutorial will show you how to retrieve and update metadata to add a startup script to your VM via API.

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A VM that is not deployed (or a VM that is powered off)
- This tutorial uses an example VM that is not deployed
User with privileges to work with VMs and Manage virtual machine backup configuration (VAPP_MANAGE_BACKUP) because backups previously used metadata
Optional: a monitoring server and a user with the privileges to Manage virtual machine metrics (USERS_ENABLE_DISABLE_VM_METRICS)

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