Set Custom Properties based on AWS Tags

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Requirements

• Manage your AWS cloud instances as nodes
• Create custom properties with the same name as your AWS tags
• Install the AWS Tools for PowerShell
• Store your keys in a credential profile

  # Create a credential profile# encrypts your credentials and stores them in your home folderSet-AWSCredential `                 -AccessKey AKIA0123456787EXAMPLE `                 -SecretKey wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY `                 -StoreAs MyNewProfile

Script

# connect to SolarWinds$Hostname = "localhost"$Username = "admin"$Password = ""$swis = Connect-Swis -Hostname $Hostname -Username $Username -Password $Password# set default values for AWS profile and regionSet-AWSCredential -ProfileName MyNewProfileSet-DefaultAWSRegion -Region us-east-2# list of tags to sync$tags = "Environment", "Owner"# gather all instance IDs$instanceIDs = @()$reservations = Get-EC2Instanceforeach($res in $reservations) {    foreach($inst in $res.Instances) {        $instanceIDs += $inst.InstanceId    }}# iterate through the list of instance IDsforeach ($instanceID in $instanceIDs) {    # get the tag values for this instance    $tagValues = Get-EC2Tag -Filter @{Name="resource-id";Values=$instanceID}, @{Name="key";Values=$tags}    # get the custom properties for the corresponding node    $node = Get-SwisData $swis "SELECT Nodes.NodeID        , CP.Uri        , CP.Environment        , CP.Owner        FROM Orion.Nodes AS Nodes        LEFT JOIN Orion.Cloud.Aws.Instances AS Instances ON Nodes.NodeID = Instances.NodeID        LEFT JOIN Orion.NodesCustomProperties AS CP ON Nodes.NodeID = CP.NodeID        WHERE InstanceId = '$($instanceID)'"    # update the value for each custom property if needed    foreach($tag in $tagValues) {        # check if the custom property is empty        if(!$node.($tag.Key)) {            # if it is empty, update it with the AWS tag value            $props = @{                ($tag.Key) = $tag.Value;            }            Set-SwisObject $swis -Uri $node.Uri -Properties $props        }    }}

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