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Add Managed Items to a Group Manually

You can populate custom groups manually, by adding managed items that you select. Adding managed items to groups individually can be necessary when you are fine-tuning group structure. However, setting up group rules is usually a more effective strategy.

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. Navigate to the Manage Groups page.

   The page displays current groups in a tree structure.

   Note: System groups appear with a "lock" symbol in the Groups tree to indicate their read-only status. You cannot add items to or remove them from system groups.

2. Expand nodes in the Groups tree to locate and select the group to which you want to add managed items.

   If items have already been added to this group, they appear in the right pane.

   Note: Items that are added directly to a group as a manual step appear as Direct Items in the Group Properties pane. Items that are added to a group because they are children of a managed item are Inherited Items in the Group Properties.

3. Click the Properties tab in the right pane.

   The Properties page opens.

   

4. Confirm the setting for the following option, and change it if necessary:

   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.

5. Click Save.
6. Click the Items tab.

   The Show Items list appears. It does not apply to groups that do not yet contain members.

7. Click Add Item Type.

   The Add Items dialog opens.

8. Select the type of item that you want to add from the Available Items list.

   The list of items refreshes to show items of the selected type that are available to add to the group.

   The available items depend on the item type, the data sources registered, and the items discovered.

   To see additional pages of items, click the links below the list. Or use the Search field to search for an item in the list.

9. Select items by clicking their check boxes. Click the check box in the table header row to select all items on a page.
10. Click Add Items.

    The Items tab refreshes to show the new group members, but the Add Items dialog remains open.

11. Click Close when you have finished adding items.

    The Add Items dialog closes. The Items tab shows the items that you have added.