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Create a Custom Group

Before you start creating groups, plan a strategy and a structure. Consider the types of access permissions that CA Performance Center operators require to perform their monitoring duties. If necessary, you can discuss your organizational and monitoring goals with a CA technical representative. If you plan to deploy business hours, see Create a Site Group for more information.

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.

Important! If you create a group for a CA Infrastructure Management Data Aggregator data source, we recommend limiting group membership to 10,000 items. This count includes the children of managed items. Observing this limit keeps reporting time to less than 10 seconds.

Follow these steps:

1. Log in 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.

   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 from the Group Type list.
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.

More information:

Custom Groups

Permission Groups and Context Groups

Add Managed Items to a Group Manually

Add Managed Items to a Group Using Rules