Manage Groups

You can view, create, and delete groups in the Administration console in Oracle Management Cloud.

Groups are an efficient way to logically organize, manage, and monitor the entities in Oracle Management Cloud. Creating a group enables you to collectively monitor and administer multiple entities as a single logical unit. For example, you can define a group to contain all the WebLogic Servers in a production cluster. A group can include entities of the same type, such as all production databases, or it could include multiple types of entities.

Choose Which Type of Group to Use

You should consider the purpose of your group and the function it serves before determining which type of group to use to organize entities. You can choose from the following types of groups:

• Static: A static group does not have any qualifying criteria. The membership management for a static group is typically manual or static and you must decide which entities should be included in a static group. It is best suited for a group of entities whose membership is unlikely to change frequently. Static groups are created, updated, or deleted in the Administration console in Oracle Management Cloud.

• Dynamic: A dynamic group allows you to add entities to a group based on set membership criteria. In dynamic environments where new entities come into the system frequently, entities that match the membership criteria are added automatically to a dynamic group. As the owner of a dynamic group, you must specify the membership criteria during dynamic group creation (or modification) and membership in the group is determined solely by the criteria specified. Dynamic groups can be created, updated, or deleted using either the Administration console in Oracle Management Cloud or via Oracle Management Cloud REST API . Regardless of the method used to create dynamic groups, they can be viewed in the Administration console.

Create a Static Group

1. Select Administration in the Management Cloud navigation menu.

2. Select Entity Configuration in the Administration navigation menu, then click Groups.

3. On the Groups page, click New Group.

4. On the New Group page, enter the Group Name.

5. Under Membership Criteria, select Static.

6. Click Add.

7. In the Select Entities dialog box, select the entities that you want to add to the group and click Select.

8. Click Save.

The new static group is displayed on the Groups page.

Create a Dynamic Group

1. Select Administration in the Management Cloud navigation menu.

2. Select Entity Configuration in the Administration navigation menu, then click Groups.

3. On the Groups page, click New Group.

4. On the New Group page, enter the Group Name.

5. Under Membership Criteria, select Dynamic.

6. Click Add Tag.

7. Select a Tag Key from the drop-down menu and choose a value for the Tag Key or leave it blank to choose all available values. You can add additional tags by clicking Add Tag.

8. Select the tag inclusion criteria (All, Any, Combination). You can click Validate to validate the tag criteria

9. Click View Members to view a list of members found based on the tag criteria.

10. Click Save.

The new dynamic group is displayed on the Groups page.

Update a Group

1. On the Groups page, click the group you want to update.

2. On the specific group’s page, you can perform the following actions:

   • Click New to add an entity.

   • Select the entity you want to delete and click Delete to delete the entity.

3. Click Save.

The group is updated with the changes you’ve made.

Delete a Group

1. On the Groups page, click the Delete Group icon against the group you want to delete.

2. Click OK in the confirmation message.

Perform a Search Operation

You can search for a static or dynamic group in the Administration console. On the Groups page, enter the name of the group in the Search field and click the Search icon. The relevant results are displayed.