• The Amazon Systems Manager CloudWatch Dashboard will no longer be available after April 30, 2026. Customers can continue to use Amazon CloudWatch console to view, create, and manage their Amazon CloudWatch dashboards, just as they do today. For more information, see [Amazon CloudWatch Dashboard documentation](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch_Dashboards.html). 

# Assigning custom inventory metadata to a managed node


The following procedure walks you through the process of using the Amazon Systems Manager [PutInventory](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/systems-manager/latest/APIReference/API_PutInventory.html) API operation to assign custom inventory metadata to a managed node. This example assigns rack location information to a node. For more information about custom inventory, see [Working with custom inventory](inventory-custom.md).

**To assign custom inventory metadata to a node**

1. Install and configure the Amazon Command Line Interface (Amazon CLI), if you haven't already.

   For information, see [Installing or updating the latest version of the Amazon CLI](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/cli/latest/userguide/getting-started-install.html).

1. Run the following command to assign rack location information to a node.

   **Linux**

   ```
   aws ssm put-inventory --instance-id "ID" --items '[{"CaptureTime": "2016-08-22T10:01:01Z", "TypeName": "Custom:RackInfo", "Content":[{"RackLocation": "Bay B/Row C/Rack D/Shelf E"}], "SchemaVersion": "1.0"}]'
   ```

   **Windows**

   ```
   aws ssm put-inventory --instance-id "ID" --items "TypeName=Custom:RackInfo,SchemaVersion=1.0,CaptureTime=2021-05-22T10:01:01Z,Content=[{RackLocation='Bay B/Row C/Rack D/Shelf F'}]"
   ```

1. Run the following command to view custom inventory entries for this node.

   ```
   aws ssm list-inventory-entries --instance-id ID --type-name "Custom:RackInfo"
   ```

   The system responds with information like the following.

   ```
   {
       "InstanceId": "ID", 
       "TypeName": "Custom:RackInfo", 
       "Entries": [
           {
               "RackLocation": "Bay B/Row C/Rack D/Shelf E"
           }
       ], 
       "SchemaVersion": "1.0", 
       "CaptureTime": "2016-08-22T10:01:01Z"
   }
   ```

1. Run the following command to view the custom inventory schema.

   ```
   aws ssm get-inventory-schema --type-name Custom:RackInfo
   ```

   The system responds with information like the following.

   ```
   {
       "Schemas": [
           {
               "TypeName": "Custom:RackInfo",
               "Version": "1.0",
               "Attributes": [
                   {
                       "DataType": "STRING",
                       "Name": "RackLocation"
                   }
               ]
           }
       ]
   }
   ```