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Create Property Group Workflow

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Last updated: Jul 29, 2022

In addition to the “Infoblox-Default” property group created by the Setup Wizard workflow, you can create a custom Infoblox-specific property group by using the Create Property Group workflow. You can use a custom property group for VM provisioning. For the complete list of properties, see Appendix B Infoblox IPAM Properties.

Note

Before you create a custom property group, execute the Create/Update Property Definitions workflow above.


  1. Log in to the vRealize Orchestrator client.
  2. Choose Design mode.
  3. On the Workflows tab, select IPAM –> vRA –> Administration –> Property Dictionary.
  4. Right-click Create Property Group and choose Start workflow.
  5. Specify the vRA host.
  6. Click Next.
  7. Specify the property group name, description, and visibility (select All tenants).
  8. Click Next.
  9. In the Common parameters step, do the following:
    — Specify the record type that you want this property group to create through a vRA request (host record, DNS record, or DHCP record) and the required details for the selected record types.

    — Specify if restarting the DHCP service is needed. If you select Yes, the DHCP service will be restarted when it is required by NIOS configuration. For more information, see Appendix E Operations Requiring Service Restart.

  10. Click Next.

  11. In the Network interfaces step, select the desired number of virtual network interfaces and specify details for each of them.

  12. In the Custom hostnaming step, specify the following:
    Note that the Infoblox IPAM plugin for vRA is tested against an open source custom naming module from Dailyhypervisor. The module is no longer maintained by Dailyhypervisor and therefore, Infoblox will not support running the module anymore. If you are using your own custom host naming extension, you can continue to use it. However, Infoblox will not support the custom host naming extension either.

    — Enable custom hostnaming: If you select Yes, the Infoblox.IPAM.enableHostName property will be set to TRUE in the created property group and Infoblox Plug-In will update VM’s host name in NIOS when a VM is created. Otherwise, the records in NIOS will be created with the vRA default host name.
    — Automatically detect if custom hostname is set: Specify if you want Infoblox Plug-In to always update VM’s host name in NIOS or only when a custom hostname was set for the VM instead of the vRA default. If you select Yes, then specify the next option.
    — Use properties specific for Custom Hostnaming Extension in vRA: If you use Custom Hostname Extension for vRA, select Yes. If you want to use another third-party extension for custom hostnaming, select No and specify the properties manually in the next step.

  13. If you selected No for Use properties specific to Custom Hostnaming Extension for vRA, select the number of conditions to detect VM name change and click Next. You can select up to three conditions.

  14. Specify each condition as a name-value pair specific to the custom hostnaming extension that you use.
  15. Click Submit.

For more information about properties specific to Custom Hostname Extension for vRA, see Appendix B Infoblox IPAM Properties.