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Create Your Own Custom Groups

If the "My Custom Groups" feature is enabled for your user account, you can place managed items in custom groups to organize them. The groups that appear in your "My Custom Groups" area are visible only to you.

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 to CA Performance Center.

    If your user account has the My Custom Groups feature enabled, you see a My Settings tab on the console toolbar.

  2. Select My Settings, and click My Custom Groups.

    The My Custom Groups page shows a tree view of group structure and a tabbed view of group properties.

    Note: The groups that you can see are groups that the administrator selected for you, based on your responsibilities.

    The page displays groups in a tree structure.

  3. Locate the My Custom Groups node in the My Assigned Groups tree. You can add groups as subgroups of this node.

    Select the My Custom Groups node to add groups to the My Assigned Groups tree.

    Note: The custom groups that the administrator created cannot be edited within the My Custom Groups interface. These read-only groups appear as group references; their properties tab shows a path to the original group.

  4. Right-click the My Custom Groups node, and select Add New 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 or Site from the Group Type list.

    If you selected Site as the type, an additional parameter appears:

    Location

    Identifies a physical location that is associated with the site group, such as a city or a branch office.

  8. Click Save.

    The new group appears in the My Assigned Groups tree. No other CA Performance Center user can see this group.

    The group contains no items until you add them. You have two options for adding items to a custom group: