The Custom Groups node provides a mechanism for you to group system resources together in a single view. In addition, groups may be nested to create custom "topologies" of system resources.
Custom groups include the predefined groups All Partitions and All Objects and any user-defined groups that you created using the Manage Custom Groups task under the Configuration category in the tasks pad. The All Partitions group includes all the partitions defined to all servers managed by the Hardware Management Console (HMC). The All Objects group is a collection of all the managed servers, partitions, and frames.
These system-defined groups (All Partitions and All Objects) cannot be deleted. However, if you do not want All Partitions or All Objects displayed under Custom Groups, do the following:
You can use the Views menu on the table toolbar to display your preferred table column configuration, see Views menu for more information.
You can use the Manage Custom Groups task under the Configuration category from the tasks pad to create your own group that you want to work with. This task allows you to create new groups and manage existing ones. To create a group:
You can also create a group by using the pattern match method:
Note: | Patterns specified in the Managed Resource Pattern input field are regular expressions. For example, if you specified abc.*, all the resources that begin with abc will be included in that group. |