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Tag policy attributes table

Field

Description

Name

Text of the tags that the policy describes. You can only use lowercase letters. You must comply with the tag naming rules of your cloud providers

Description

A description of the tag policy

Action

Allow or deny the creation of tags and/or values. Child policies cannot change this action

Tag key formats

Select if the tag policy applies to all formats (case insensitive) or the formats specified as Key formats

Key formats

A list of valid formats of the tag key (Name), for example, using upper-case letters

Allowed child policy
key format operations

Optionally, in tag policies with child scopes, select if users can modify the tag policy: Append or Remove tag formats from the list.
Users cannot extend the allowed operations, they can maintain the same list or limit it.

Tag values

Select if tag policy applies to all values or specific values

Values

A list of other valid values of the tag. To specify an empty value, do not enter any text and click Add

Allowed child policy
value operations

Optionally, in tag policies with child scopes, select if users can modify the tag policy: Append or Remove values from the list.
Users cannot extend the allowed operations, they can maintain the same list or limit it.

Required resources

For tag policies that allow the creation of tags and/or values, you can define a list of resource types that must have tags.

Allow these child policy
required resource
operations

Optionally, in tag policies with child scopes, select if users can modify the tag policy: Append or Remove required resources from the list.
Users cannot extend the allowed operations, they can maintain the same list or limit it.

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Edit a tag policy

When you edit a tag policy, you cannot change the Name or the action (Allow or Deny).

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Excerpt
nameDisplay a compliance report for resource tags

After you create a tag policy, you can check tag compliance on the Compliance report tab. The platform automatically generates the report once a day. You can filter the Compliance report by the State of the resource (invalid or valid) and search for text in any of the resource attribute columns (e.g. Resource name, Provider type). To sort the Compliance report by the data in a column, click on the column header.   

Compliance reports in control view

For all resources, the Compliance report displays the following compliance details:

  • Resource compliance State (which means its status), which is Valid or Invalid 

  • Tags and values

  • Keys with no compliant values

  • Missing required keys

  • Non-compliant values

You can select a resource to display details of its Compliance errors.

Compliance reports in control view (part 2) - Display details of tag compliance errors

You can also obtain the Compliance report using the Abiquo API.

After you have made changes to your tags and resources, to update the Compliance report, click the refresh button at the bottom of the screen.

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