{"id":4431,"date":"2019-01-09T20:48:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T16:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/?p=4431"},"modified":"2019-01-09T20:48:42","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T16:48:42","slug":"assigning-and-viewing-nsx-security-tags-via-powershell-powernsx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/virtualization\/assigning-and-viewing-nsx-security-tags-via-powershell-powernsx\/","title":{"rendered":"Assigning and viewing NSX Security tags via PowerShell \/ PowerNSX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a bunch of VM names in a text file. I want to assign an NSX Security tag to all of them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:ps decode:true\">Get-Content .\\InternetVMs.txt | %{ Get-VM $_ | New-NsxSecurityTagAssignment -ApplyTag -SecurityTag (Get-NsxSecurityTag internet_access) }<\/pre>\n<p>To get the NSX Security tags of a bunch of VMs in a text file (so u can confirm the above worked):<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:ps decode:true\">Get-Content .\\InternetVMs.txt | %{ Get-VM $_ | Get-NsxSecurityTagAssignment  | select-object @{Name=\"SecurityTag\"; expression = {$_.securitytag.name}}, VirtualMachine }<\/pre>\n<p>These <a href=\"https:\/\/powernsx.github.io\/\">require PowerNSX<\/a> BTW.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I had to do the same for a bunch of VMs in a folder too:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:ps decode:true\">Get-Folder \"XenDesktops\" | Get-VM | %{ $_ | New-NsxSecurityTagAssignment -ApplyTag -SecurityTag (Get-NsxSecurityTag internet_access) }<\/pre>\n<p>Lastly, to find all VMs assigned a security tag:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:ps decode:true\">Get-NsxSecurityTagAssignment -SecurityTag (Get-NsxSecurityTag internet_access)<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a bunch of VM names in a text file. I want to assign an NSX Security tag to all of them.\u00a0 Get-Content .\\InternetVMs.txt | %{ Get-VM $_ | New-NsxSecurityTagAssignment -ApplyTag -SecurityTag (Get-NsxSecurityTag internet_access) } To get the NSX Security tags of a bunch of VMs in a text file (so u can confirm &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/virtualization\/assigning-and-viewing-nsx-security-tags-via-powershell-powernsx\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Assigning and viewing NSX Security tags via PowerShell \/ PowerNSX<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[183],"tags":[660,184],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}