Creating, editing, and deleting rule-based groups

Rule-based groups are groups that are created based on specific conditions or criteria that you specify and dynamically updates the content based on matching condition. Only those devices and monitors that match the conditions or rules you specify are added to the group. The condition or rule is a combination of a pattern match on a device or monitor name, and on a relation (Equals, Contains, Starts with, Ends with).

• • To create a rule-based group
  • To update a rule-based group
  • Related topics

To create a rule-based group

1. Go to Configuration > Groups and click action menu next to Group Configuration.

   Note

   The Create Rule Based Group icon is visible only on the Manual Groups tab. You cannot perform add, update, or delete operations on synchronized groups because these groups are automatically synchronized from Infrastructure Management.

2. Click Create Rule-Based Group.
   Because you are creating a rule-based group, the Type field displays Rule-Based Group. Specify information as per the following table:

   Note

    The values that you enter for the properties are not case-sensitive. 

   Field name	Description
   Group Name	A name for the group you are creating. Note The group name must be within 60 characters.
   Description	A brief description of what the group was created for.
   Parent Groups	Select the parent group if you want the newly created group to be a child of this parent group. You can choose more than one parent group.
   Child Groups	Select the child group that must belong to the newly created group. You can select either a manual or automatically synchronized group as a child group. You can select more than one group as a child group. Note You can select a child group from a list of manual and automatically synchronized groups. The automatically synchronized group names are displayed along with their associated Infrastructure Management server names enclosed in the parentheses as shown in the following screenshot.

3. Click the  to add one or more rules to select devices. You can set multiple conditions to select devices as shown in the following example:

   
   

   The values that you enter for the properties are not case-sensitive. 

   

    

   Step-by-step instructions to select devices

   1. Select a property. Different properties supported for the device selection are: Device Name, Device DNS Name, Device IP Address, and Tenant Name.
   2. Select an operator to create the condition. The available operators depend on the property that you select.
   3. Specify a value for the selected property.
   4. (Optional) To add more than one condition, click the , and perform the earlier steps.
   5. (Optional) To group the conditions, use the following parentheses and Boolean operators from their corresponding lists:
       
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      • AND
      • OR
   6. (Optional) To remove any existing condition, click the . 
   7. To view the list of devices that are selected based on the specified criteria, click Preview. 
      Note: The Preview option is enabled only after you specify values for the selected conditions.
   8. Click Save.

4. Click the  to add one or more rules to select monitor instances. You can set multiple conditions to select monitor instances as shown in the following diagram:
   Note: The values that you enter for the properties are not case-sensitive. 
   
   

   Step-by-step instructions to select monitor instances

   1. Select a property. Different properties supported for the monitor selection are: Monitor Type, Monitor Name, Device Name, Device DNS Name, Device IP Address, and Tenant Name.
   2. Select an operator to create the condition. The available operators depend on the property that you select.
   3. Specify a value for the selected property.
   4. (Optional) To add more than one condition, click the , and perform the earlier steps.
   5. (Optional) To group the conditions, use the following parentheses and Boolean operators from their corresponding lists:
      
      • (
      • ((
      • (((
      • )
      • ))
      • )))
      • AND
      • OR
   6. (Optional) To remove any existing condition, click the . 
   7. To view the list of monitors that are selected based on the specified criteria, click Preview. 
      Note: The Preview option is enabled only after you specify values for the selected conditions.
   8. Click Save.

   
   

To update a rule-based group

Perform the following steps to update an existing static group:   

1. Go to Configuration > Groups.
   All the parent groups are displayed in the Group Configuration page. 
2. Expand the group name of the group that you want to update. If you want to update a child group, navigate to the child group name and expand it.
3. Click the action menu  next to the group name and select Edit Group.
4. Make the required update.
   You can add or remove parent groups, child groups, assigned devices, and monitor instances.
5. Click Save.

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