Custom groups are a key component in a strategy to monitor and manage your system. Creating custom groups lets you organize data and assign operator permissions to access data to each CA Performance Center.
The term permission groups describes groups that have been selected to act as high-level permissions. Permission groups are assigned to user accounts, and they precisely determine the items and data that each operator can view. Create custom groups that you can assign as permission groups or as administered groups.
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. You can also populate custom groups by adding specific items manually, such as routers or interfaces that are logically or geographically related.
To create narrower sets of accessible data, add subgroups to permission groups. Using subgroups to allocate permissions helps users to narrow their focus, and to investigate and monitor possible areas of concern. You can assign the subgroups to user accounts that need a narrow focus, and can 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 want 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, site groups contain items and subgroups of items that are grouped by location. Adding site groups to other custom groups in your tree structure allows you to build geographically and logically organized reports. 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 subgroups containing cities. You can then add more subgroups to contain buildings within each city.
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