Use Web Services to Manage Groups › Create Groups Programmatically

Create Groups Programmatically

The global administrator can use the CA Performance Center RESTful web services to create and populate groups. Groups are always associated with a tenant definition. If you are not deploying multi-tenancy, groups are associated with the Default Tenant. Otherwise, group management tasks only apply to the current tenant.

The web service offers two methods of identifying groups:

• Using the full group path, which identifies the group as a subgroup of the default first-level or root group ('All Groups'). The group itself is a node on the Groups tree, which extends hierarchically from the root group.
• Using the group ID, an internally assigned numeric value that identifies a node. No identifier is assigned to the path to a group.

  Use this method to identify groups if they are nested within multiple containers to avoid typing the full group path.

You can create rules to add monitored devices to groups automatically. You can also add subgroups to your groups.