Creating and Managing Groups › Group Management › Copy a Subgroup into a Group

Copy a Subgroup into a Group

After you have created custom groups, you can populate groups by adding subgroups that contain managed items. You can add new groups to existing groups. The new groups become subgroups in a hierarchical structure. You can also copy system groups or other custom groups into high-level groups to create subgroups.

When you copy a group, you are actually creating a group reference. You cannot modify a group reference, but you can remove it. Groups that have been copied display an additional tab in the right pane. Click the Remove References tab to see places where copies of this group have been placed.

Any changes that you make to the original group are reflected in all its group references. Removing a group also deletes all of its references.

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 locate and select the group that you want to copy. All of its subgroups are automatically included in the selection.
4. Right-click, and select Copy Group.
5. Select the parent group where you want to add the subgroup.
6. Right-click, and select Paste Group.

   The existing group and all of its subgroups are copied to the selected parent group.

   Their icons now indicate that they are read-only group references .