Custom Groups

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:

  1. Open the Change User Interface Settings task from the HMC Management work pane.
  2. Deselect All Partitions node and All Objects node in the User Interface Settings window.
  3. Click OK to save the changes and close the window. Those groups are no longer displayed under Custom Groups in the navigation pane.

You can use the Views menu on the table toolbar to display your preferred table column configuration, see Views menu for more information.

User-defined groups

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:

  1. Select one or more resources (for example: servers, partitions, frames) that you want to include in the group you want to work with.
  2. Open the Manage Custom Groups task.
  3. From the Manage Groups window, select Create a new group, specify a group name and description, click OK to complete. The new user-defined group is displayed in the navigation pane under the Custom Groups node.

You can also create a group by using the pattern match method:

  1. Without selecting an object you can open the Manage Custom Groups task from the Custom Groups or Systems Management tasks pad.
  2. From the Create Pattern Match Group window, select one or more group types that you want to create, specify a group name, description, and the pattern used to determine if an object should be part of the group, click OK to complete. The new user-defined group is displayed in the navigation pane under the Custom Groups node.

    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.