Confluence and extended taxonomy / metadata

Question

Hi,

I am scripting all VMware Virtual Machines attributes into Confluence Documents under the Customer Space they belong to.

Secondly, as an Sysadmin on VMware, I want som alternative selection possibilities.

One of the attributes is the folder structure in Virtual Center, and I would like to view and (perhaps) select serverdocuments in Confluence from that structure.

A Folder could be like "Netic/vm/Netic/Hosted/Region Nord/Prod-Servers/"

Now, labels are quite insufficient, as I can make a "Netic/vm/Netic/Hosted/Region Nord/Prod-Servers/" label, but perhaps I want to find all documents to servers in folder "Netic/vm/Netic/Hosted/Region Nord/"

Multiple labels could 
 solve it:

labels= "Netic",""Netic/vm/", ""Netic/vm/Netic/Hosted" . etc etc etc

But that really sucks... gives a lot of labels to handle and maintain....

So, how do I accomplish to add this taxonomy / metadata structure in a fitting manner.....

B_ Normann P_ Nielsen · Answer

Hi,

Sure, You are right, but it goes a bit further, which my initial question did not reflect, I also would like to "handle" these properties a bit more, like making the tree-structure from VM (or part of it) on a Confluence page, or via a java script lib. But Your thought is excellent enough :-)

Stephen Deutsch · Answer

Hi Normann,

My first though is, why don't you just do it with text?  You could write somewhere in your document:

Server Location: Netic/vm/Netic/Hosted/Region Nord/Prod-Servers/

Then, to find all servers in Region Nord, you would simply do the following search (with quotes): "Server Location: Netic/vm/Netic/Hosted/Region Nord"

If you search for something more specific, it would not return the not matching values, and if you wanted less specific, it would return more pages.

B_ Normann P_ Nielsen · Answer

As stated, the actual Page structure is not an option, Pages a placed in the Customers space.