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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.

You can add a maximum of 2000 child groups to a parent group.

Follow these steps:

1. Log in to the Console for CA Performance Center or CA NetQoS Performance Center as a user with the required administrative role rights.
2. Navigate to the Manage Groups page.

   The page displays current groups in a tree structure.

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

   The Add Group window opens with the New tab 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 this option is disabled and you add a router, the router interfaces are not included. As a result, the data from those interfaces is not visible in drilldown views.

   Default: Selected (CA PC) or Not Selected (NPC).

   Note: Clear this option for a custom group that contains routers or the group will not be usable in in the NFA console.

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

   If you selected Site as the type, specify values for the additional parameters that appear, including Location.

8. 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.