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Create Custom Groups

Before you start creating groups, plan a strategy and a structure. Consider the types of access permissions that operators require to perform their monitoring duties. If necessary, you can discuss your organizational and monitoring goals with a CA technical representative.

Create groups under the All Groups node in the Groups tree, or within an existing custom or site group. You cannot add groups to system groups, which appear "locked" in the Groups tree.

A maximum of 2000 child groups can be added to any parent group.

Note: This topic describes the steps to perform in CA Performance Center. If you install CA Network Flow Analysis and register it as a data source for CA NetQoS Performance Center, the steps are slightly different. For more information about tasks in CA NetQoS Performance Center, click Help in the CA NetQoS Performance Center Console.

Follow these steps:

1. Log in to the CA Performance Center Console as a user with the required administrative role rights.
2. Select Admin, Custom Settings, and click Groups. Or click My Settings, My Custom Groups.

   A group management page opens and displays the current groups in a tree structure.

   Note: Tenant administrators only see the items that are associated with their tenant.

3. Expand nodes in the Groups tree to find a location for the new group.
4. Right-click the node, and select Add New Group.

   The Add Group window opens.

   The New tab is selected by default.

5. Supply values for the following parameters:

   Group Name

   Specifies a name for the group. Do not use the following special characters in group names: /&\,%.

   Description

   (Optional) Helps you identify the group.

6. Confirm the setting for the following parameter:

   Include the children of managed items

   Adds the children of managed items automatically when the items are added to this group. If you disable this option and add a router to the group, the interfaces on that router are not included. Therefore, their data is not visible in drilldown views.

   Default: Selected.

7. Select Custom or Site from the Group Type list.

   If you selected Site as the type, an additional parameter appears.

8. Enter a location in the Location field. The Location parameter identifies a physical location that is associated with the site group, such as a city or a branch office.
9. Click Save.

   The new group appears in the Groups tree.

   The group contains no items until you add them. You have two options for adding items to a custom group:

   • Manually populate the group by adding items in the Manage Groups interface.
   • Create rules to manage group membership.