Manual grouping

BMC Atrium Discovery enables you to add manually selected nodes to a group. You can use this feature to create new groups, or to modify automatically created groups. Manually created groups can overlap, and can contain some or all of the nodes in automatically created groups. Manually created groups can also contain multiple node kinds (for example, Hosts, Software Instances, and Business Application Instances) and subgroups.

Groups in application mapping

Groups and subgroups enable you to collect all items which make up an application and divide them into subgroups to help you understand the structure and operation of an application. The scheme that you use to subdivide the components of the application is the basis for understanding the application, it does not affect the way the applications are mapped.

Once you have collected the items and divided them into subgroups, you can create a PDF report to distribute to the application or component owners.

The Group page is the home page for each group that has been created in BMC Atrium Discovery.

You can access Group pages from the Groups menu.

The following sections describe the use of manual groups:

• Creating and populating a group.
• Creating manual groups from lists or visualizations.
• Adding subgroups to an existing group.
• Viewing manual groups and their contents.
• Adding individual or multiple nodes to a group.
• Removing individual or multiple nodes from a group.
• Renaming manual groups.
• Including or excluding groups from your working set.
• Deleting manual groups.