Working with Groups › Create Your Own Custom Groups › Add Managed Items to a Group Manually

Add Managed Items to a Group Manually

You can populate custom groups manually, by adding managed items that you select.

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. Further, custom groups that the administrator created are also locked.

Follow these steps:

1. Log in to CA Performance Center.
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.

3. 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.

4. Click the Items tab in the right pane.

   The Show Items list appears.

5. Click Add Item Type.

   The Add Items dialog opens.

6. Select the type of item to add from the Available Items list.

   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.

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

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

9. Click Close when you have finished adding items.