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Specify the Basic Parameters of the New Group
When you create a new group, you must specify the basic details of the group.
Prerequisites
If not group types exist, you must define at least one group type before you can create a group. See “Create
a Group Type,” on page 76.
Procedure
1 From the Actions drop-down menu, select Create new group.
2 On the Edit group details page of the New Group wizard, fill in the basic parameters of the group.
Option Description
Name
Type a name for the new group.
Description
Optionally, type a description for the group.
Type
Select the group type from the drop-down menu. You create group types
before you create groups.
Policy
Select the policy to apply to group members.
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Inherit policy from parent - if the group that you create is nested
under another group, you can select this option to propagate the
policy assigned to the parent group to the nested group.
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Default policy - You can select this option to use the default policy
that is set in the Configuration dialog box.
NOTE Default policy is the policy that you have decided to apply to
monitored objects by default.
n
All custom policies that you created appear as separate entries in the
Policy drop-down menu. You can select the one to apply to the new
group.
NOTE If an object belongs to several groups that have different policies
assigned, the policy with the highest priority applies to this object. The
priority of policies is determined by their position in the list of policies.
You can find the list of policies on the Manage Policies page of the
Configuration dialog box.
Membership Type
Select the way group members are added to the group.
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Dynamic - members are added to the group based on the rules that
you specify on the following pages of the New Group wizard. Select
this option to create a rule-based group.
NOTE This option must be selected if you want to create lists of objects
to exclude from the group.
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Manual - you select group members manually, from the inventory
tree. No rules are applied to the group, and you update group
members manually. Select this option to create a manually managed
group.
Automatically keep the membership
up to date
This option is available only for rule-based groups, if you selected
Dynamic membership type.
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Select the option if you want vCenter Operations Manager to run
periodically a search query to find objects that match the group
membership rules, and update the list of group members according to
search results.
n
Do not select this option if, after the initial creation and population of
the group, you want group members to be added or deleted only
when you select the Update members option from the Actions drop-
down menu.
3 Click Next.
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