Custom groups are a key component in a strategy to monitor and manage your system. Creating custom groups lets you organize data and assign each CA Performance Center operator permissions to access data.
The term permission groups describes groups that have been selected to act as high-level permissions. Assigned to user accounts, they precisely determine the items and data that each operator can view.
You can create groups by using system groups as building blocks. You can use group rules to add items to groups automatically, as they are discovered during monitoring. Setting up rules makes it easier to populate and maintain groups. Or you can populate custom groups by adding specific items manually, such as routers or interfaces that are logically or geographically related.
You can add subgroups to permission groups to create narrower sets of accessible data. Using subgroups to allocate permissions helps users narrow their focus to investigate and monitor possible areas of concern. You can assign the subgroups to user accounts that need a narrow focus, and assign the higher-level group containers to those that need a broader scope.
The main consideration when creating any custom groups is how they can be used to give users access to the data they need to view. You can create custom groups to address the job function of an individual, or to group similar items together.
Site groups are custom groups that are based on physical locations, such as a city, region, office, or campus. Typically, they contain items and subgroups of items that are grouped by location. When you add site groups to the other custom groups in your tree structure, you can build reports that are organized both geographically and logically. Site groups enable business-hour filtering of dashboard views.
Similar to other custom groups, site groups can contain subgroups. When building site groups, you can, for example, start with a region and add sub-groups containing cities. You can then add more subgroups to contain buildings within each city.
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