Manual grouping

BMC 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 and subgroups enable you to collect all items that 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.

The following topics provide instructions and information for using manual grouping:

• Viewing created groups
• Creating manual groups
• Managing manual groups