Managing groups

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Groups assemble collections of resources for Turbonomic for Government Standard to monitor and manage. When you set the scope for your Turbonomic for Government Standard session, you can select groups to focus on those specific resources. For example, if you have VMs devoted to a single customer, you can create a group that includes those VMs. You can then set the scope to that group when you create a policy or run a plan.

Turbonomic for Government Standard supports dynamic and static groups.

  • Dynamic

    Create groups by defining a specific criteria. You can create a group according to naming conventions (for example, all VM names that start with ny), resource characteristics (for example, all hosts with four CPUs), or other criteria (for example, time zone or number of CPUs). Turbonomic for Government Standard automatically updates the group as members are added or removed based on the criteria.

  • Static

    Create groups by selecting specific members.

To create a group:

  1. Navigate to the Settings Page.

    Settings button

    Click to navigate to the Settings Page. From there, you can perform a variety of Turbonomic for Government Standard configuration tasks.

  2. Choose Groups.

    Groups button

    Click to navigate to the Group Management Page.

    This page lists all the custom groups that you currently have configured for Turbonomic for Government Standard.

  3. Perform tasks in the Group Management page.

    Group Management page

    You can perform any of the following tasks:

    • Sort by name or severity.

    • Search for groups.

    • Edit a group by clicking the pencil icon.

      For a dynamic group, edit the criteria to select group members. For a static group, you can add or remove specific members.

    • Filter by name using regular expressions.

    • Download a list of groups.

    • Expand an entry to see group details.

      Click the Show more details button Show more details button to see group details.

    • Select an entry to delete the groups

    • Create new groups.

    To work with a long list of groups, you can filter by group type. For example, only show groups of VMs, or groups of host machines. You can also type a string in the Search field to filter the list.

  4. Expand an entry to see group details.

    View of Group details

    The details show you information about related entities such as how many hosts provide resources for a group of VMs. If there are any pending actions for the group, the details list those actions as well.

  5. Create a new group.

    Click NEW GROUP, choose a group type, and then specify the group settings.

    Create new group process

    • Give the group a unique name. To prevent issues, you should never use duplicate names for groups of the same entity type.

    • Set whether the group will be static or dynamic.

      To create a static group, select the member entities from the list. To filter the list, set group criteria.

      To create a dynamic group, set group criteria. The list updates to show the resulting group members.

    • When you are finished, save the group.

Deleting groups

Delete any group that you no longer need. Before you do, verify that no charts, plans, or policies are scoped to the group that you want to delete. Otherwise, these items lose their scope. For example, a policy with no scope is not enforced.