# Update custom attribute called OS **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Tags:** windows, vmware\ **Created:** [February 7, 2021, 5:03am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/update-custom-attribute-called-os/34585 "2021-02-07T05:03:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kiran\_Kumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f475e1/32.png) [@Kiran\_Kumar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kiran_Kumar)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2021, 5:03am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/update-custom-attribute-called-os/34585/1 "2021-02-07T05:03:33Z")
Hi anyone can suggest Please if we can update the say a ‘custom attribute’ called OS from OS level with below [https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/vmware/vmware\_vm\_info\_module.html](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/vmware/vmware_vm_info_module.html) Say i want to use Windows 2019 DataCenter … which is not aviable btw in vCenter 6.7 … so getting that as ansible facts and add to attributes somehow Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Dick\_Visser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@Dick\_Visser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dick_Visser)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2021, 6:46am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/update-custom-attribute-called-os/34585/2 "2021-02-07T06:46:30Z")
You could override the values by combining it with a specially crafter dictionary, or loop over it, etc. How exactly you do this depends on the data structure, but the module documentation does not mention any such custom attributes. If you have an example of your playbook and the resulting data structure? ---
**Author:** ![Kiran\_Kumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f475e1/32.png) [@Kiran\_Kumar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kiran_Kumar)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2021, 8:58am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/update-custom-attribute-called-os/34585/3 "2021-02-07T08:58:26Z")
Thanks for Reply, just to give you more context The custom attributes i have added are OS Application Owner Etc… Now why OS ? That is as the OS seen by vCenter is say Ubuntu .,… but it does not tell if that is Ubuntu18.04 or Ubuntu20.04 … so i have added them manually for now… but looking for way to Automate that. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Dick\_Visser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@Dick\_Visser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dick_Visser)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2021, 12:55pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/update-custom-attribute-called-os/34585/4 "2021-02-07T12:55:10Z")
That’s not really an example of the actual data structure. So for the moment the answer is that what you want should be possible. ---
**Author:** ![Akasurde](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/akasurde/32/230_2.png) [@Akasurde](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Akasurde)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 4:25am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/update-custom-attribute-called-os/34585/5 "2021-02-08T04:25:31Z")
Hi You can set and get custom values like - name: Set Custom Attributes community.vmware.vmware\_guest\_custom\_attributes: validate\_certs: False hostname: ‘{{ vcenter\_hostname }}’ username: ‘{{ vcenter\_username }}’ password: ‘{{ vcenter\_password }}’ state: present name: ‘dev-1’ attributes: - name: OS value: ‘Windows Server 2019’ - name: Get guest information community.vmware.vmware\_guest\_info: validate\_certs: False hostname: ‘{{ vcenter\_hostname }}’ username: ‘{{ vcenter\_username }}’ password: ‘{{ vcenter\_password }}’ name: ‘dev-1’ datacenter: Asia-Datacenter1 The output will be like - ok: [localhost] =\> { “changed”: false, “instance”: { “annotation”: “”, “current\_snapshot”: null, “customvalues”: { “OS”: “Windows Server 2019” }, … ---
**Author:** ![Kiran\_Kumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f475e1/32.png) [@Kiran\_Kumar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kiran_Kumar)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 11:46pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/update-custom-attribute-called-os/34585/6 "2021-02-08T23:46:51Z")
Thanks for Reply Abhijit … i already saw ur module - community.vmware.vmware\_guest\_custom\_attributes I am doing this already which powershell with one liner Get-VM $($line.name) |Set-Annotation -CustomAttribute “OS” -Value $($line.os) The power of ansible is it can talk on OS level & Vmware powercli does only on vCenter level vCenter sees OS os with Vmwre-tools as CentOS7 … ok gr8 … but when it comes to say Ubuntu it simply says Ubuntu 64 bit & not Ubuntu18 Now we know with Ansible “fatcs & filter” we can get OS details … so that can somehow read & push into custom attributes ? If yes that will be awesome. ansible all -m setup -a “filter=ansible\_distribution\_version” -o Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Kiran\_Kumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f475e1/32.png) [@Kiran\_Kumar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kiran_Kumar)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2021, 5:39am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/update-custom-attribute-called-os/34585/7 "2021-02-10T05:39:35Z")
So again experts & it could be a feature request … ## How can we dynamicailly update OS custome attribute - name: Set Custom Attributes community.vmware.vmware\_guest\_custom\_attributes: validate\_certs: False hostname: ‘{{ vcenter\_hostname }}’ username: ‘{{ vcenter\_username }}’ password: ‘{{ vcenter\_password }}’ state: present name: ‘dev-1’ attributes: - name: OS value: ‘Windows Server 2019’ ansible all -m setup -a “filter=ansible\_distribution\_version” -o =====\>\> can be used as “value” in above ? ---
**Author:** ![Dick\_Visser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@Dick\_Visser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dick_Visser)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2021, 7:53am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/update-custom-attribute-called-os/34585/8 "2021-02-10T07:53:57Z")
Can you be more clear in what you are actually trying to achieve? What problem are you exactly having? Share a playbook or inventory that does not do what you want, for example.