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AttributeGroup (Metric Family)

An AttributeGroup is a collection of item discovery attributes and metric attributes. The item discovery attributes are set during discovery, like item descriptions. The metric attributes are collected during polling. The following information describes the elements that you use in the AttributeGroup section.

Set the AttributeGroup/list and AttributeGroup/external properties to true. These properties specify that each attribute represents a list of values that is obtained from an external source. Customize the following XML elements:

AttributeGroup/name

Specifies the attribute group name. Conform to the "<FacetType/name>Group" naming scheme.

Can be updated: Yes

Possible values: Plain text

Effect of updating: None

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(Optional) Specifies the description for the attribute group.

Can be updated: Yes

Possible values: Plain text

Effect of updating: None