5 Managing Groups

This chapter describes how service provider and application groups are managed and provisioned in Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper.

The management of groups comprises the following:

Managing Service Provider Groups
Managing Application Groups

Managing Service Provider Groups

Table 5-1 describes the tasks related to service provider groups and the methods you use to perform those tasks. The methods belong to ApplicationGroupMBean MBean. For information on the MBean, see the ”All Classes” section of Services Gatekeeper OAM Java API Reference.

Table 5-1 Tasks Related to Service Provider Groups

Task	ApplicationGroupMBean Operation to Use
Get information about the number of service provider groups	countServiceProviderGroups
Add, remove and get information about a service provider group	addServiceProviderGroup removeServiceProviderGroup getServiceProviderGroup
List registered service provider groups	listServiceProviderGroups
Define additional properties for an service provider group	setServiceProviderGroupProperties

Managing Application Groups

Table 5-2 describes the tasks related to application groups and the operations you use to perform those tasks. The methods belong to ApplicationGroupMBean MBean. For information on the MBean, see the ”All Classes” section of Services Gatekeeper OAM Java API Reference.

Table 5-2 Tasks Related to Application Groups

Task	ApplicationGroupMBean Operation to Use
Get information about the number of application groups	countApplicationGroups
Add, remove and get information about an application group	addApplicationGroup removeApplicationGroup getApplicationGroup
List registered application groups	listApplicationGroups
Define additional properties for an application group	setApplicationGroupProperties